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Provide a way to disable Java distributed tracing on per app basis

The documentation shows a way to disable distributed instrumentation tracing for Java apps through host agent configuration: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=machine-java-configuration#disabling-automatic-instrumenta...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

ITNCM driver to support recent KEX

ITNCM base driver doesn't support recent KEX to communicate with network devices. No match in kex params 'mac-algorithms-cli2srv', our's: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-sha256@ssh.com, peer's: hmac-sha2-256.
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

Oracle Network Encryption for ITNCM

Oracle Database for Tivoli Products usually resides on datacenter co-hosted platforms. To ensure security of the communication between ITNM and database which contains "restricted information" for the company, we require feature Oracle Network Enc...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Delivered

When exporting data from unattached volumes, provide the data of the last attached VM as one of the exported fields.

When exporting data from unattached volumes, provide the data of the last attached VM as one of the exported fields. That data will allow for additional validation of if a VM is still active (and perhaps the user is using attaching/unattaching dis...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Delivered

Add Storage Cluster Filter to Create VM Groups

Create VM groups using a storage cluster filter. Customer wants to move VMs from storage cluster A to storage cluster B. VM groups are needed for the place and do not place policies.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Delivered

Update Android Client of Instana - So it will work with upcoming Gradle 8.0

Can you pls make the Android client Gradle 8.0 compatible? Error from Gradle (Android Studio build): API 'android.registerTransform' is obsolete. It will be removed in version 8.0 of the Android Gradle plugin. The Transform API is removed to im...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Delivered

Allow visibility on timed out Redis requests on the client side

In our redis client implementation instana does not trace high latency calls that raise a timeout exception. For better understanding redis behaviour these slow calls should be traced as well.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Tracing support for apache/IBM HTTPServer on windows platform

We have customer with core production using IBM HTTP Server on Windows 2016. Regarding IBM Instana documentation only Linux is supported for tracing: Supported Versions - Tracing Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x, on Linux x86_64. Apache HTTP Server 2.2.30...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Delivered

go-sensor: Stop losing traces during service startup

When services start up, it takes a while until the instana sensor is ready to handle traces and transmit them successfully. Currently, all traces for calls during that timeframe are lost (e.g. fetching configurations, roles, etc. from supporting m...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Go 3 Delivered

Application URL returned

Part of deployment payload status. As an open marketplace team, I’d like the link to the customer’s deployed software (if applicable) to be returned from the provisioning API so we can surface it in the management console view and make it easy for...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered