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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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.

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Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Kubernetes Migrate Workload plan improvements: Cost and Sharing

Turbonomic planning on kubernetes allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size no...
27 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

Within Turbo I should not only be able to see potential savings but the current cost of a business application

whilst turbo shows the potential savings of each change it also shows the current costs, however when looking at a wider scope like the business application this information is lost, ideally within the business application overview or details page...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

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 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Under review

Optimize download when installing in an offline environment

When following the documented installation procedure for CP4AIOps Infrastructure Automation offline deployment, an extremely large download file is produced. This download contains multiple versions of operators and components and requires conside...
29 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
2 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Under review

Business require synthetic test to run during business hours

I have a business unit who require a synthetic test to run during the work week between 08:00 and 17:00. At present you can only specify how offen the test should run specification .
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Get Turbonomic Recommendations for AWS Lambda

As customers advance in cloud usage, there's a shift towards server-less setups for both services and apps. Picking the correct Lambda setting based on needs is tricky, with each choice having its cost implications. It would me more useful if Turb...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Under review