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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

NewRelic Alerts suppression when PMC stop virtual machines

We have configured virtual machines with NewRelic alerts and integrated with SNOW. So whenever the VM powered off, a NewRelic alert will be triggered and a SNOW incident also created. So we want PMC talk to NewRelic to suppress the alerts before P...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Planned for future release

NameSpace, Node Label Group Tag & AppCat Tags: Reports

Need to have Tag columns in the NameSpace widget view and downloaded spreadsheet view to be able to sort capacity by Node Label Group tag & by AppCat tag. Otherwise this is a tedious process to show the total AppCat's NameSpace Usage by Node L...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Implement Custom Roles & RBAC Control via Entity/Tag

This would benefit all users of Turbonomic by allowing administrators to define custom roles, as well as the permissions applied to these roles either globally or by entity/tag and their respective child objects. This would enable application owne...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Future consideration

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

NOI-onprem - LastOccurrence field of Parent not updated by default

On NOI-on prem, in Related Event Grouping, it is observed that the LastOccurrence field of the Parent Event is not updated with the lastoccurrence that of the latest child events in that group. However, in case of Scope Based Event Grouping, the l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Support for MicroProfile

We have microservices built on Eclipse MicroProfile would like to get this supported as well in Instana. MicroProfile provides standard implementations for metrics, tracing and health checks. We are using Payara Micro but also plan to use Quarkus.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

supported cpu for detection of abnormal end of applications

One of our prospect of resell partner of Instana found that "no-support of Intel cpu" when its applications had been ended abnormally. The customer wondered why only AMD was supported, even Intel also share majority of market footprints. We need t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 3 Not under consideration