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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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allow job time dependency to be set relative to job stream input arrival to fix timezone DST issue

Allow job time dependencies to be set relative to the job stream input arrival time rather than from the Plan start time as it is currently. This is important for scheduling where the time zone of the workstation has different Daylight Savings tim...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

User option to cleanup old images following the upgrade process.

When performing an upgrade of Turbonomic the old images are just left in the /var directory. Nexttime when a user goes to upgrade and they run the upgrade-precheck.sh script, the /var directory is often over the 70% limit and the user must manuall...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Omegamon TEPS needs to be aware of FTO HUB failover automatically

Apparently every piece of the Omegamon suite is aware of when an FTO HA HUB fails over to the hot standby, except the TEPS. This is a dramatic impact to functionality since this means that manual configurations changes are needed to the TEPS EVERY...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Future consideration

Ability to setup email alerts on APM usage and active licenses in Account & Billing.

We have requirement to setup email alerts or any alert channel on APM usage and active licenses on a particular tenant whenever the license usage is more then 85% we would like to sent an alert to a concern teams.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

zCentric Agent Installation as root

We are trying to remove reliance on root to install our TWS agent. However, after installation, there is the error - the userid used to install TWS can't impersonate to the proid which we used to run the job. We are attempting to mitigate root acc...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Infrastructure Map too slow

Our Instana has a lot of agents and the Infrastructure Map is not usable. It takes ages to load. We would like to have a solution to this problem, what about having a filter which let us show less agents in the Infrastructure Map? With such a filt...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 4 Future consideration

Show docker container name in VM view

we are running some of our applications in docker containers. We would like to see the name of the running container within the instana "breadcrumb" view. In the VM View we have the same Problem. We can see a number of Redis instances, but we can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Network Error Logging

Modern browsers support network error logging - which is basically the possibilty to sent network issues to a distinct system. The system is to be defined via a header. This allows gathering data about connectivity issues - which is otherwise not ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Group nodes of a redis cluster in service view

We're using redis-cluster to run redundant scaleable redis services. However calls traced by java instrumentation are not mapped to a redis-cluster but to a specific redis instance. This means that redis calls for a specific redis cluster are dist...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration