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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Add intelligence to an agent to avoid overcommitting its resources

What is an edge agent's ability to reject agreements if already has workloads running on it that use up its compute capacity? Assume there is an edge device with 1GB RAM, and two services that each state a 1GB requirement. After it signs an agreem...
about 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 1 Planned for future release

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows, ticket support Request #28566
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

REST API only supports basic authentication

IWS REST API has basic authentication option only. which is not IBM security approved. Competitors like BMC COntrol-m provice REST APIs with more secure authentication like bearer authentication. the same must be provided on TWS's API.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Multiple email sender address for Instana Alerts

currently, only one single option to configure the email sender address for Instana Alerts (as well as invites). Is there an option to configure the address per tenant / unit?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

ParkMyCloud API Enhancement to append users to teams

All could benefit. This enhancement would allow anyone using the API to provide user access to teams via the API, without having to also include all users who already have access.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

For PMC Teams - Override SCHEDULE OVERRIDE TIME LIMIT cannot be set more than 99hrs

Trying to limit schedule override in teams setting. We are not able to set it greater than 99 hours to put schedule override limit, it is not supported today by Turbo in UI. It’s not even able to set it into days. It only support hours not more th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Using Instana fully non-root after installation (docker)

We are expecting to use Instana fully non-root after the installation including Instana CLI commands such as start, stop and update.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Selection with multiple criteria on model and planning

On DWC we can select only one filter at the same time. For instance Jobstream starting by A but we cannot select Jobstream starting by A and on the workstation C and other filter
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enable all log streaming to Kafka external data sink

One of my customers has requested that we stream all our logs to their Kafka data repository. They have an internal regulatory requirement around this, and their top tier vendors are expected to comply. While we can technically do this now by re-d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Integrate with SolidFire | Direct VM iSCSI

My customer JPMC has been greatly expanding their use of Solidfire/direct connect iSCSI storage. As we can't see that, the environment is not anything we can manage, and leaves us out of a major opportunity area. For the customer, the use of Solid...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration