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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 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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Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Adding the ability to create new user roles or edit existing default ones

The rationale behind this stemmed up when I was trying to allow a user or multiple teams to edit maps inside DI. hen I found out I have to assign either "Super Admin" or "Tenant Admin" role to the target user/group in order to have this permission...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for string value collection and storage

Today, there are a handful of devices that expose data as stringtype, e.g. "up", "down", "active", "standby". Enhance SevOnes collection and storage engines to allow strings to be handled by the system.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Run Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Planned for future release

ITM for Omegamon (TEPS functionality) should support passphrases

ITM 6.3.0 FP7 SP2/SP5 does not support passphrases. Currently ITM limitations are as follows: 1) up to 50 characters 2) For Distributed system, the acceptable characters are as following - For tacmd login those characters are between the brackets ...
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 8 Planned for future release

MSSQL - Implement correlation between service and infra entity

Instana agent is able to monitor MSSQL but its missing the correlation between the service and the underneath infrastructure.If we click on Application Icon -> Services -> Database name -> Infrastructure tab. We can see the amount of call...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Regarding the price display for "Aurora Standard" and "Aurora I/O-Optimized"

Aurora has multiple prices even for the same instance type. However, in the current Turbonomic UI, it's unclear which price is being displayed. Is it possible to make this clear? ------------------------------------------------------------ https:/...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Planned for future release

Additional ActiveMQ metrics

Additional ActiveMQ metrics (Memory Percent Usage, Store Usage, Health, Current Status, etc.)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release