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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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Support for Spring Boot 3.x

We currently support Spring Boot versions 1.x and 2.x Spring Boot 3.0 is now available, and we need to have official support for it as customers begin to upgrade.
6 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 5

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Ability to select local region to deploy ARM SaaS

Many customers in Japan are required to keep their data locally for security and data sovereignty reasons. Several prospects have already asked if ARM SaaS can be deployed in the local region. This is probably the same case for some of the EMEA co...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 5 Planned for future release

Add "Non-Disruptive" column to Action Center for On-Prem and Container actions

Today, in the Action Center for many Cloud scaling actions, we have a column highlighting whether the action is non-disruptive or not. This helps customers adopt Turbo's automation quicker, builds trust, and lowers the barriers to action execution...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 5 Future consideration

Turbonomic VLAN ID Merge and Mapping for vCenter portgroups with different names but same VLAN IDs

Our superclusters are spread between two VDS within vCenter, 1 for our legacy 10gbe network and the other for our 25gbe ACI network. vCenter requires the port group names to be unique and the unique naming is preventing Turbonomic from merging the...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 3 Planned for future release

ITNM Webtools not working with devices that require SHA2 envryption

ITNM webtools that uses SSH to run the commands remotely on devices that require SHA2 are failing because ITNM uses only SHA1 currentl. More details can be found at IBM case TS006186609.
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
19 days ago in Instana / .NET / Azure 1 Submitted

Add support for C2S (Amazon’s classified Commercial Cloud Services cloud)

All federal intelligence agencies use C2S. In order to provide APM with Turbonomic to these customers, we must support C2S with Turbonomic.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

Improvement of status of file-observer

When the file-observer has the state "finished", there are still some jobs in the background, i.e. indexing in Elasticsearch. The state in the overview of topology-management is irritating, as the user might still see some undefined resources in ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Message Bus Probe: token with kafka topic name in rulesfile

Today it is possible to add multiple topics for a given probe installation. However, there is no token available in the rulesfile to check from which topic a given message came from. This means, if I have a common kafka server with topics that req...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Future consideration