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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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Supporting Apache Thrift (Tracing)

We need support for org.apache.thrift:libthrift:0.19.0. In order to get full tracing.
8 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Dedicated Sensor for Tomcat

Currently the only way to discover Tomcat is to use Custom Server templates. Unfortunately, information that can be collected by this method are limited. Because of that a Tomcat dedicated sensor is required.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Need to configure MetaSpace for applications hsoted at EKS.

Dear Team, We are unable to get the metaspace configuration at instana agent for our java based application running at EKS.
9 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Import hosts allocated the license manually in Flexera One to the licensed hosts group in Turbonomic.

Currently, Flexera One target imports the following type A hosts to the licensed hosts group in Turbonomic but not type B. A: hosts that are running Windows VMs and have been detected consuming the license.B: hosts that have been manually allocate...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

embed the Turbonomic Supply Chain in some other application or browser

The ability to embed Turbonomic Supply Chain in a web page or other application without using APIs
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Smart Parking for Pods

IBM Customers have Container Licenses measured by Virtual Processor Cores (VPCs). We would like Turbonomic to have the same Parking capabilities available for Virtual Machines in Public Clouds but for Pods running in Kubernetes and Openshift. So, ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Identify duplicate snapshots

Policy to identify duplicate backup snapshots
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under 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

.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

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration