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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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Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
7 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Plan migration of cloud workloads back to on-premise datacenter.

Turbonomic allows us to plan a move of on-prem workloads to cloud (Azure), but we want the ability to plan moves of cloud workloads back on-prem. We are maintaining on-prem resources to allow for bringing our servers home, but need to make sure th...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Multi node deployment model support for on-premise OSS K8s platform other than OpenShift.

We need official support for on-premise OSS(Open Source Software = open source upstream Kubernetes) K8s deployment model. (K8s CNCF compliant, compatible with AKS/EKS/GKE). *Users are free to deploy it by referring to the steps below, but official...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 2

Alert setup on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity

Ability to setup alert on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity as this requirement will help monitoring team to take action before Horizontal pod autoscaling reach its max capacity
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
about 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
11 months ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release