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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 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.

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Update The NFVD observer Listener job to connect and process the data by listening of Apache Pulsar topic

As customer is moving from their existing messaging stream from kafka cluster to Apache Pulsar, NFVD observer listener should also made compatible with Apache pulsar message streaming cluster
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Implement Synthetic Monitoring function in Docker (self-hosted) version

Customer is considering using Docker version in DMZ for open internet applications. Main Instana will be migrated into OCP version.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Not under consideration

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Getting container IP from extractor

Netskope would like the ability to get container IP from the extractor. PM comment: this is not functionality related to Turbonomic, rather an issue related to choice of or configuration of the Prometheus exporter used.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Working with Prometheus in container environment

Today we don’t manage exporter, and metric has to be in Turbo namespace, but Netskope would like it to be available in all namespaces.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

Option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see for Custom dashboard

In custom dashboard is there option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see the value for Custom dashboard as it would be helpful for SRE team to visualize the dashboard.
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Prod: change in autotrace webhook version needs application to clean and redeploy(prod blocked)

The autotrace mutating webhook is only called when there is a redeployment.We would need to rewrite this into an operator to gain more control and actually observe the state to trigger a redeployment. This is a production blocker as every-time we ...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Ability to setup email alerts on APM usage and active licenses in Account & Billing.

We have requirement to setup email alerts or any alert channel on APM usage and active licenses on a particular tenant whenever the license usage is more then 85% we would like to sent an alert to a concern teams.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add support for INP

Currently you support data on other CWV, when will you be adding INP?
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Have DWC role "API USER" control who can access a RESTAPI that runs against a zWS controller

Currently giving a userid the API USER role does not give the user access to run RESTAPI, neither does a user need to have the RESTAPI role so that they can run a RESTAPI against a zWS controller. All that is needed is the RACF userid and password...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration