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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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

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Add capability to run Instana back-end on a multi-architecture cluster (IBM Power and x86)

Add the ability to host Instana on a multi-architecture cluster independent of the backend placement, x86 or Power.
21 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Local User Activity, Password Policy Administration, & API Keys

Last Activity & Login Date: For local users, we'd like to be able to see the Last Used Activity and Last Login Date. Password Complexity Rules and Lifecycle Management: We need a mechanism to enforce our Company's password complexity rules, su...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Under review

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Add support for GCP VM matching in Servicenow App

Support for matching AWs, Azure, VMWare and Hyper-V VMs exists today in the Turbonomic Servicenow app. Customer has a requirement to support matching of GCP VMs so change requests can relate to the relevant CIs in servicenow.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Filter based on risk category and description

Please add support to be able to create a group based on risk category (and description if possible) so that I can build policies that are specific to different types of risk. For example, I would like to be able to create a group and policy that ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
22 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Submitted

Mttrpad snmp probe to keep track of trap sequence id (TS015874858)

Currently we have nco_p_mttrapd probe instances which are receiving SNMPV3 over udp alarms from our network components & other element management system. UDP packets as we all know will be least prioritized and chances are that it might be dro...
22 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review