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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 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...

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Add support for Azure SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale an Azure SQL instance.
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

AWS Plugin - Recommended Cloud Object Types for Enhanced Scope

The Following AWS Object Types/Indicators in our business were defined as critical key indicators that our clients would want to have visibility and alerting to, the request of this IDEA is a step to create further metrics to be gathered by the pl...
15 days ago in SevOne / Cloud 2 Planned for future release

RPC call in Instana is not capturing http status code

http code for WCF is mapped as RPC calls in Instana UI and same has been confirmed in the support ticket, we would like to get correct mapping for all http codes in WCF.
16 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Support for Openshift Virt VM provisioning in self-service catalogue

Our customer is using MCMP to self-service deploy VMs in both VMware and Red Hat Virtualization. Now as Red Hat is moving to Openshift Virt they are asking for the functionality to self-service deploy VMs in Openshift Virt
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Planned for future release

Alert setup for node not getting attached to kubernetes cluster

When a node is not able to attach itself to a Kubernetes cluster Instana should trigger alert. Suppose ASG has spun up 5 nodes but only 2 nodes get attached to the cluster. In Instana we want to setup alert that can inform us that 3 nodes are not ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for STIBO metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Java profiling for windows OS

It gives developers continuous and historical code-level view of application performance that is essential for locating CPU, memory allocation and I/O hot spots as well as latency bottlenecks. Benefits anyone who is hosting Java on windows machine...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Policy Historical Helper: In the policy editor, add a feature that will help determine if the policy has the correct settings by using historical data.

It would help admins determine if the new policy or policy changes will catch the expected events. Otherwise, users would have to wait for future events to see if the policy had the desired results. In a separate tab in the Policy Editor, display ...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability for the optional use of Key Based Authentication

We have a business use case around key based authentication. We have a group that would like to provide data for Power VM probe but are having issues with AD base authentication as they use key based for the rest of there processes. We would like ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release