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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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Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

A more robust Impact cluster failover is needed as the current heartbeat to nameserver primary is not sufficient

Currently, if the Primary Impact server is "crippled", meaning it is still up but is no longer able to process work, it can respond to heartbeat ping requests from the cluster members, causing the cluster members to think they do not need to assum...
22 days ago in IBM AIOps Insights 1 Submitted

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Under review

easier Turbo Instance SSL certificate import - no manual edit of the YAML file

right now customers have to edit the yaml file with VI and a big cert file - loads of mistakes are made - and it's complex. and they need the right number of spaces - like 12 14 16. Vmware Vsphere client has an easy .cer file import process - this...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Personal API Token with same rights than the user to whom the token belows

We have been told by Instana support that users allowed to create their personal API tokens can access through the API to data that they have forbidden to access through the User Interface, which would seem to not be coherent at all. I would like ...
12 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Need to update the date related field values into SharePoint

For more details, please find the related support case number TS015931077.
12 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Need to do custom filters (Condition) to retrieve the data from SharePoint.

For more details, please find the related support case number TS015931307.
12 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Support for vSphere 8

Hi team, We found out that Instana supports vSphere until version 7 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-monitoring-vsphere#supported-versions Please support version 8. Thank you
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add a way to be able quick filter NetFlow widget in DI

Not every user is comfortable with editing a widget to create a filter for a Flow widget. Would be great if there was a way to create a quick filter from the main report. For example, for view is Top Applications; provide a way to filter applicati...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 4 Planned for future release