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Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim built-in metrics and Events

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume (PV) and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) built-in metrics and Events. PV/PVC metrics are essential to monitoring applications storge, however, Instana doesn't provide built-in metrics nor Events to cover the stor...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Delivered

Monitoring K8s PVC Storage space

Hi! We need the ability to monitor storage in Kubernetes as per article: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/ Instana Request #30622 was logged for additional documentation, but stated that it is not possible yet.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Delivered

Installing from OpenShift Registry

Commonly the cloud paks require a big space on HDD (tar.gz files, the uncompress process, the load into the local docker registry, Why not try to load the same file (tar.gz) into the openshift registry? and from this point launch the installer (in...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

Quantify Risk Across the Components (Clusters, VMs, Apps)

Today clients or service providers are not able to quantify the risk across the components of their enterprise due to the following challenges: Compliance is a complex process covering many security processes including but not limited to Patching,...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

MCM to provide the choice of deploying multiple version of OCP cluster on AWS

Details: Currently via MCM we cannot provision different version of Openshift cluster on AWS as the version is dependent on the openshift-installer binary and which is a static value in multicluster-hub-cluster-api-provider-ocp microservice.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

Support for Instana Backend on OpenShift

Openshift support is on our roadmap and definitely something we want to support at Instana. Beta is planned for Q2 and GA for Q3.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 7 Delivered

Solve cookie caching problem that impacts application monitoring

Since the inception of the BOD we have consistently seen problems with some of the embedded UIs, especially ICAM, because their cookie lifecycles are not aligned with the parent MCM UI. This means users will sometimes get prompted for a login when...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

Create App YAML that spans Containers, VMs and Cloud Services.

Allow definition of and Application Yaml that spans, Containers, VMS, Cloud services. and allows SLAs to be defined across them.
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Delivered