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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 4 Planned for future release

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Tracing through Ivory & CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) with Instana

SOAP endpoints running in CICS are recognised in Instana as endpoints only when served through an Ivory Server and the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Native CTG tracing should provide insights required to expose endpoints as Service entities in I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

extract more then one group with regex in the omnibus-probe

Regex support multiple groups but not in the Omnibus-probe. I have test it and only the fist group is shown. Example. $input="testTEST1testTEST2test" $output=extract($inpunt,"test(.*)test(.*)test") $output will show "TEST1" But I like to see " TES...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Combine Azure volume scaling with VM scaling based on VM tags

What is the desired customer use case?: The customer would like from a policy to trigger the actions and execute the n actions at the same time (automatically/programmatically using API calls based on VM tags to select all the action related to o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

Monitor external https endpoints

There are components /services in an application which do some calls to external http based services. I can see this calls in the analyze trace view. Is there a possibillity to get an aggregated view how this external service performs? In e.g. App...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists