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Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Please change numerical fields in data downloads to be formatted as number on downloads

Hi IBM, I've noticed that when downloading any data from Turbonomic the csv or excel that is extracted does not format numerical data in a number format within csv/excel. Please can the scripting be changed on the download/extract function to form...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Direct Access to a Complete List of Successful and Failed Actions

To enhance transparency and accountability, Turbonomic should implement a comprehensive audit trail capturing all actions (including successful and failed attempts) and configuration changes within the platform. This will enable clients to easily ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Adding a hostname in the logging

Hello,a update on this idea. We have tested it and find out, that we need a servername in the Log entries. Currently the log entries come with the pod names, such as zookeeper, market, topology, ...! This means we cannot find our entries in a cent...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release