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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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Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Add Kerberos support for TEPS to DB2 authentication

Our company has moved to Sophia for server security management and it does not support the local username/password needed to authenticate to a DB2 database. We have to maintain local accounts and keep them in sync to continue our support of TEPS.
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

twsinst efficiency improvements

Ref: TS011706916 We've noted when upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5, and also when applying fixpacks to 9.5, that twsinst is performing "copy" operations on all the files in the stdlist directory instead of "move" operations. This has led to two issues du...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled.

As per Application security recommendation , It is recommended resolve below mentioned appsec in SCAPM application: Please find below details for appsec in SCAPM. Vulnerability Description in Detail:It was observed that the thick client applicatio...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Missing input validation - Server side and client-side validation

As part of Application Security, the following Vulnerability has been raised by our security team. Missing input validation - Server side and client-side validation
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Infrastructure Automation needs to collect storage pools for PowerVC

The PowerVC provider creates a storage manager provider, but the underlying API (cinder) only collects cloud_volumes, cloud_volume_snapshots, cloud_volume_backups, and cloud_volume_types. We also need to collect the storage/volume pools capacity a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Configure Event - Condition

When seeting up Event, when usinn two or more Conditions, we would like have option OR, and under Condition section for Operator, we would like have option "is not", "does not contains"
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

regular expression filter on different attributes in group creation

Currently we have regular expression filter for the VM name while creating a group for VMs which makes job easy for bulk selection at a time. It would also be good to have similar regular expression filter for creating group of VMs based on accoun...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Display journal entries as a field in the EventViewer view

There should be a journal entries field available on EventViewer view as its very useful for monitoring team who manages the events where they can see recent journal updates and no need to open journal every time. This will reduce time of user whi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration