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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Icons on left go missing when GUI is in large font/size

When a new user logs into Turbo, their GUI by default shows the screen as fairly large and the icons on the black bar on the left of the GUI are not always present (first to go missing is Settings at the bottom). If you resize the screen to be sma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Ability to setup email alerts on APM usage and active licenses in Account & Billing.

We have requirement to setup email alerts or any alert channel on APM usage and active licenses on a particular tenant whenever the license usage is more then 85% we would like to sent an alert to a concern teams.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2

Ed25519 ssh keys when adding ActionScript target

When configuring the ActionScript target, the target discovery failed using Ed25519 ssh keys. The error says 'Could not extract key pair elements from provided string’. The recommendation within the bank is to Ed25519 ssh keys. When changing to RS...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Future consideration

Add tag to modified RDS resource when action is executed

DFS is using RDS managed by OCP operator. In order to sync with operator configuration after turbo made RDS instance modification DFS would like Turbo to add a Tag to modified RDS DB, that would say ”Turbo modified - current configuration is ‘inst...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Monitior Kafka Broker Certificate Validity

we are very happy with your Kafka Monitoring solution. There is one per broker metric which we believe is also worth monitoring. That is the validity of the SSL Certificate provided by the broker. If the certificates expire, the whole cluster stop...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Google Cloud Functions monitoring support

Hi, are there any plans for supporting monitoring on serverless platforms, particularly Google Cloud Functions or is there already a solution? Currently we are using Java Cloud Functions, but we also used Javascript based ones in the past. Third o...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting

We need the swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting. We are configuring custom events to trigger on swap memory. Currently, both the Memory > Swap Free and Memory > Swap Total metrics are measured in Bytes. They need to be a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

.NET Core and Framework Profiling on Windows

When developing software you sometimes run into memory leaks or high CPU that are difficult to explain. Profiling can help to identify the root cause so the issue can be solved. This feature already exist for Linux: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ins...
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Not under consideration