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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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Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
about 14 hours ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
about 16 hours ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Data source encryption with AES

The current AES Encryption implementation in OMNIbus and WebGUI only allows passwords up to 30 characters long whether encrypted or un-encrypted. If you encrypt a password longer than 16 chars using ncw_aes_crypt script, the encrypted string becom...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Customize Start up page by users preference

Currently the start up page is hard set for ALL users. The users are now requesting to be able to save their own start up page in the start up view when they login, that they would like to see.
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Changing custom dashboard colors based on a certain threshold

When creating a custom dashboard we cannot add a widget to monitor a metric for example CPU usage in % and change change color when it reaches this threshold, as the prime number widget only changes color relative to the time shift window badge.
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Webservice Job: Pooling the execution status in the same webservice jobs

Hi team, We are using webservice jobs run various seeded jobs using the webservice plugins. In second step we are defining an executable job to fetch the report id/request id from the XM response. In last step we are doing the conditional checks i...
1 day ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Allow user to specify proxy address in HTTP action

State Street is trying to access their in-house runbook automation system through a HTTP action in CP4AIOps, however the HTTP action times out during the TLS handshake. We confirmed that the rba-as pod could reach the endpoint via curl command lev...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Possibility to trim the UTC +/- details and display only the city detail in the MWM new entry creation page.

Our operations team are getting confused by the UTC + / - details before the city names in the timezone drop-down from the MWM new entry creation page. For example Eastern timezone was showing as UTC -5 prior to day light saving start and now show...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Option to export MWM table contents to excel/flat file.

Our operations team need to review the maintenance entries often on ad-hoc basis. Its not practical to ask them to copy paste from the page or export from the ImpactDB everytime when they may need it because they cant involve Impact administrators...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted