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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
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...

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Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Exact Topology Template must allow deselecting neighbourong nodes

In the exact topology templates while choosing the neighbouring nodes it is vital to allow updating the neighbouring vertex by removing some the already choosen vertex as neighbours. At the moment, topology vertex can only be added and once they a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

No tags for empty vm specs

When we export App service plan Delete actions, We noticed that tags not appear, they're not there and would love to see them included. They only appear to be missing in Delete actions for VM spec.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Under review

Turbonomic should interact with OpenShift API for delete actions.

Turbonomic should interact with the OpenShift API for delete actions on volumes. This will allow the cluster to clean up necessary objects like the PV and PVC configurations while deleting the backend volume. This would also solve PaaS specific is...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

Support auto scaling/increment of AIOPs component's PVC claim when current claim is 80% or more of current capacity of PVC storage and automatic End user notification about AIOPs health

We have observed one issue - the Netcool connector stopped processing new Events from ObjectServers. We founded out that pvc netcool-vct-netcool-conn- pvc was full, we extended it to 100mb from original 50mB. This has resolved the issue temporally...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Grouping row in the alert list to support summarising custom view columns

Currently in latest AIOPs 4.5 version , we can added mapping for new custom field/s ( SiteId in our case ) in Netcool connector and and can add same in AIOPs alert view but like Resource , EntityTYpe , Sender column values for parent alert where W...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add support of TSRM Gateway for Maximo for IT

Maximo for IT is the successor of the current version of IBM Control Desk and needs to be supported with the TRSM GW which allows incident creation and synchronization. The Target Maximo for IT minimum version is 8.1.4 (as part of MAS/Maximo Proce...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review