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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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An option during the upgrade or uninstall of an agent to only choose the Dynamic Agent and not the FTA

During the installation of an agent, an option is available (-agent dynamic|fta|both) to choose which type of agent to install, either a Dynamic Agent (DA) or an Fault-Toerant Agent (FTA). A similar option must exist for upgrade (-update) and unin...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Top database & container pod information bulk download function

If we download from the Top Virtual Machines widget, we can download all virtual machine information at once.However, in the case of Top Container Pods , workload Controllers , Container Specs , Namespace , Databases,We can only download 50 pieces...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Send application monitoring events via kafka topic to Instana

data ingestion/consumption to Instana from Kafka Producers.Use case is that application like ibm biz hub is producing and propagating monitoring data via kafka topic and Instana could be used for monitoring via kafka topic and also existing agent ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Is it possible to get an alert when a VM is live migrated in Azure

Is it possible to get alerts from Instana when VM is live migrated in Azure (Microsoft Alerts are inconsistent)
12 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Karthik would like the ability to customize the name for his New Relic targets in the Turbonomic UI

The customer has 100+ NR accounts he would like to add into Turbonomic and currently the only way they can be named is off the New Relic Account Number. Being able to make a customized name would solve the problem of the customer having to constan...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

When Turbo lists “vCenter” as the source, I would like the specific vCenter noted – similar to how it lists cloud accounts.

When having multiple vCenter's this will help the client specifically identify which vCenter Turbo is recommending actions for.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Close an incident

An incident (or issue) occurs and it appears to be a false positive.It would be useful that this incident can be closed with a comment for example
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

On the Application Dashboard, Provide Total Wait (Latency x Calls) in the dashboards. This would definitely could be added to the top services widget.

The App Dashboard doesn't really let you know what is the busiest service or endpoint that has the most wait. The calls let you know it's busy, but you don't know if it's a problem because it could be a really fast cached call. The latency is good...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration