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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
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Want to see if it might be possible to do "forcive"/"planning" sizing

Would like to see if there might be a way to force sizing actions when needed . Have several situations where we want to do **non-usage based sizing** what I call = "planning sizing" . Use cases are - where app owners have done load testing and kn...
about 12 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Submitted

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
about 13 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

the process to update the SSL certificate needs to be better supported by the documentation

Customers (not just this one) have spent HOURS in VI editing the yaml file trying to get the cert to work. This will reduce customer frustration and improve the feeling towards our product. The current documentation (which is very good ) is here -...
about 13 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
about 14 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Submitted

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Device Type Classification in SevOne REST API

My team owns IBM CP4AIOPS ASM observer that responsible for resource topology discovery. We do have an integration with SevOne, called SevOne Observer. At the moment. I have a request from StarHub and EastLink on the capability for AIOPs to classi...
about 18 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Export/Send Page from Action Details Dashboard

From the Action Details page (for a specific resource), there should be a way to export the dashboard view or email a read only link to a stakeholder who you wish to share the finding details, in order to seek approval to Execute Action. It's not ...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

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