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• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

URL based parsing

We need to seperate URLs into logical service groups. Our monitoring capabilities are depending on this feature
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Not under consideration

Service naming feature

We need to adapt monitored service names with our CMDB. So, we need to re-naming auto detected service, host, process names. Difficult usage: SDK, environment variable definition no regex rules, no separete service type (custom service)
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Functionality already exists

exception ignore

We need to ignore some business exception and doesn’t mark as a fail and alert. because every operation has its own bussiness exceptions and sometime they can be ignored for a period of time.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Azure App Service Reserved Instances

Turbonomic doesn't currently discover Azure App Service reserved instances thus may raise actions to scale down for savings due to under utilisation.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

No way to write thresholds against custom parameters configured via the "Configuration Based SDK"

If I use the Configuration Based SDK (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk), I can add custom information into the traces. That data can be visualized in the UI. But, there i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration