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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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

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Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Confirmation Dialog Box Settings

We would like for there to be a confirmation dialog box upon clicking the 'Execute Action' button. We understand that there is by default, but it can disabled via user preference. We would prefer for Site Administrators to be able to configure the...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Batch operations

Hi, it would be very useful if it would be possible to do batch operations in the turbonomic ui. For example batch deletion, or batch creation of different things i.e Groups.
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Call Alter

We would like the ability to restrict the default level of access for users of Turbonomic, particularly Site Administrators. Before a user can manually execute action of modify a policy, we would like to require that the user receive temporary acc...
30 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Enable Group selection on the Plan Feature 'Host Clusters to Merge'

Hi, I am requesting to be able to pick groups of hosts on the plan feature "Host Clusters to Merge". Cause we have different groups for our clusters and hosts and I am not able to use them for the plan feature and have to pick the clusters manuall...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboards - Jump to analytics view in custom dashboard based on widgets metrics, aggregations, filter queries

We though it would be cool if it would be possible to jump from custom dashboard panel to analytics just as in application perspective summary.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration