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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 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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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

Cloudflare Workers Tracing for JavaScript

We'd like to be able to trace requests through CloudFlare workers as they act as a gateway and frontend into the rest our application infrastructure.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Node / Other Tracers 3 Future consideration

Adding application Management Functionalities to the Edge Application Manager to manage the resources and applications in the Intel IPU and Nvidia DPU

Intel IPU and Nvidia DPU will be wide used in the future to push the processing from the cloud computing to the edge computing, our idea is to satisfy the needs of the Edge Data Fabric.
about 1 year ago in Edge Application Manager 0 Planned for future release

ability to remove MFA/2FA from users who lost their MFA device

We often run into the situation where the user loses an Instana MFA/2FA device, and to re-enable the user, we have to raise a ticket to wipe the user and re-create the user from scratch. So this can be easily fixed by giving Instana admins the opt...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Grace Period "None" Option

I set up an event to detect JVM Offline incidents and set it as a critical condition, when this is detected an alert is raised and sent to our Teams channel for my team to react to. Following a critical alert we get a grace period alert which is n...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Is a defect

It will be good to know the licence consumption in Turbonomic ie windows, linux, dbs etc

It will be good to know the licence consumption in Turbonomic ie windows, linux, dbs etc for better analysis
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Not under consideration

autoprofile support for aarch64

There are a lot of customers using aarch64 infrastructure. but now autoprofile seems only support x64.
about 1 year ago in Instana 3 Not under consideration

Increase the 256 byte limit of the Situation Take Action command string length.

Reflex situations (Take Action tab) can benefit from not having to manage, maintain and distribute scripts to servers across the estate as they are centrally managed vi the TEP client or CLI. Powerful shell automation logic can be achieved by stri...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration