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Multicloud Manager supports helm v3, not only helm v2.

Now I feel Multicloud Manager can deploy and manage lifecycle remote cluster's Application only from helm v2 chart. My potential customer, OMRON (large precision equipment manufacturer in Japan), expect they can deploy and manage their helm v3 cha...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Network Visibility

Due to the increasingly complex nature of the network, we spend a lot of time tracking down connectivity issues. These issues might be due to an unknown firewall rule, a misconfigured network policy, or incorrect routing setup in Kubernetes. Addin...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

switch the data in custom dashboards by a specific value (e.g. Namespace)

We are using Instana to monitor our environment where systems are deployed per Namespace on OpenShift.We have a custom dashboard with the same content that summarizes the time series and scores for each Namespace.If we had the ability to switch da...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Improvement of the Deployment of CA signed certificate for cp4mcm product

Openshit Version : 4.2 Cloudpak-MCM version : 1.2.0 Enterprise Hosting Cloud : AWS Background: During CP4MCM installation , installer expects the certificate (BYOC) to be located inside cfc-component directory which works perfectly fine. Feature e...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Planned for future release

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Log Aggregation

We want to be able to retrieve logs generated on the managed clusters through APIs exposed on the MCM hub. W up to and including pods.
about 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration