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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...
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Supporting Apache Thrift (Tracing)

We need support for org.apache.thrift:libthrift:0.19.0. In order to get full tracing.
23 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

AIX power swap and database tablespace name request

TradeVan is moving from ITM to Instana and facing lack of capabilties in Instana as compared to what they already have in ITM. Adding IBM CSM email as customer email is not available. From Tzung-Wen Liau: "Did you know how to get AIX swap informat...
23 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Turbonomic support for IBM Cloud (IaaS/DB etc.)

Originally, the request was filed as TURBO-I-5 in 2022, but it was closed as “Not under consideration.” However, we still occasionally receive support requests related to it.
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

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...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

Historical Data Migration - Onprem

With a transition for self hosted users from Docker to K8's we are seeing alot of customers asking for a data migration tool to save historical data. I understand that configuration is being worked at the moment, but it would be greatly appreciate...
24 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Monitoring of Custom Application Error Codes by Instana

The customer uses Instana for Unified Payment Interface application monitoring. They want to monitor error codes generated by UPI application by Instana.
25 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Need to configure MetaSpace for applications hsoted at EKS.

Dear Team, We are unable to get the metaspace configuration at instana agent for our java based application running at EKS.
25 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Maintenance Window Management View Customization

We need to have the option to enable or disable the required comparators in the GUI such as =, !=, like, not like. Based on the customer requirement, they can keep the required comparators.
27 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Policy Historical Helper: In the policy editor, add a feature that will help determine if the policy has the correct settings by using historical data.

It would help admins determine if the new policy or policy changes will catch the expected events. Otherwise, users would have to wait for future events to see if the policy had the desired results. In a separate tab in the Policy Editor, display ...
27 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
27 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted