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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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Instana Support for z/VSE Operating System

This is a request for IBM to support running Instana the mainframe z/VSE operating system similar to the way it is currently supported on z/OS operating system (with Instana Gateway, CDP Streaming, spans, etc.). It would be useful to the many IBM ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Under review

Adding GPU capability in Turbonomic

Currenlty GPU resources are not recognized in Turbonomic and we are going big with GPU enabled VMs. Due to wihich GPU enabled clusters are managed manually for VM Motion. This ineeds to be prioritized. Lack of GPU resource understandng in Turbonom...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add Citrix Hypervisor support to the main stream hypervisor support in Turbonomic

Citrix targets and support for its targets are not prime time at the moment in Turbonomic.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Support for Elasticsearch 8.2

I am using elasticsearch for DB purpose and running 8.2 in the production. As per below document elastic8.2 is not supported yet. Please verify elasticsearch 8.2 and let us know. We are not seeing traces related to elasticdb in Instana by default ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Trace for JDBC requests from DB2 Connect to DB2 on z/OS

For customers using JDBC calls to DB2 on z/OS through an intermediate DB2 Connect server, this is must to compose the complete transaction trace.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Support for adding a Promethues target protected by user and token through prometurbo/turbodiff

Enterprise clients usually have access to prometheus api protected by authetication with user and token. At the moment connection with such target fails with the following log in turbodiff pod: 418044 1 discovery_client.go:142] Metric endpoints [h...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Submitted

Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Under review

Enhance instana agent to monitor certificates

Information on zertificates e.g. name, issuer, path, date of monitored application or infrastructure
about 1 month ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Sensor 0 Under review

Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) should use RACF EJBROLE to associated roles with a userid when the DWC running under z/OS (zliberty)

Currently DWC uses an internal DB2 database to associate roles with userids, and it allows RACF userids and passwords to be used at logon time but when assigning a role to the userid it depends on information in an internal database rather than ge...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review