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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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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allowing Topology Manager to get all the informations about network interfaces of the devices on map imported from SevOne via dedicated observer

It is useful for all the opportunities in IBM that we must propose to customer where Watson AIOps and SevOne should be integrated.
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Submitted

get license information from API

in order to be able to manage licenses, it would be great to have the possibility to query the license usage and license "valid to" dates from the API instead of manually gathering them from the UI.
1 day ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Request to enhance the JDBC gateway to enable connections to two Databases in a single gateway process

Request to allow JDBC gateway to write to two databases in a single gateway process - This allows us to write to different databases at the same time ensuring the delivery of all alarms to both the databases simultaneously.
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Submitted

restricting API source IP addresses

Anyone who knows API token can change Instana configuration with using Instana API. For security, I hope that Instana backend should be able to restrict API source IP addresses.
2 days ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Include metadata in applications

We would find it useful if we could enrich the information related to an application with some metadata; for exemple, a description would help in dashbards to better share the aim of the application. It would be nice if it was got also through the...
2 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

ISBANK wants to observe, how much time spent in any method for .Net and Java.

In Instana, the customer wants to observe, how much time spent in any method for .Net and Java.
9 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Allow filtration by entity type in Group Management page

We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best especially when there are so many to filter from and having all engineers keep track of all sorts of naming conventions is not simp...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

ISBANK needs a call-based java profiling, together with time-based java profiling.

In Instana, we have Java profiling and stack trace for the calls but there is no direct correlation between them. I mean the customer needs a call-based java profiling, together with time-based java profiling.
9 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Instrumention module for gorm databases

We understand that for golang database/sql tracing is available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=go-collector-common-operations#how-to-instrument-a-database-connection-created-with-sqlopen). However we use gorm.Open...
6 days ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted