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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 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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Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud)

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud) to be able to send only actions for certain groups of VMs and Volumes that are for performance to ServiceNow during a certain time frame and other actions that are...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

When viewing a VM / Pod the user should have access to a terminal for access / running commands

When scoping to a VM / Pod we show actions that can be performed on the entities. However, some customers would also like to do some sort of independent debugging. If we have a terminal in the UI we can allow for the user to stay within Turbonomic...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) I...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

nco_pa_remove_entry

At the moment it is possible to add entries in the nco_pa by using the commandline tool nco_pa_add_entry, but it is not possible to remove an entry. Therefore we need for automatic changes with ansible a toll wich removed an existing entry from th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Characters that Netcool cannot use

OS:AIX 7.1 TL5SP4SW:Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4 I am using nco_postmsg to send a message to ObjectServer.A part of the message was missing because there were metacharacters and quotation marks in the sent message.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Huawei Corba TMF814 more information in connections

In the visualization of connections in Network Hop View should be improved in order to show the users more information without the need to open the Structure View to check the endpoints. Currently we have only the ifDescr in the connection tooltip...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 10 Not under consideration

Check the supplied hostname format before starting the install process.

When standing up a new Turbo VM from the OVA there is an option to run the ./t8c.sh script and pass a -h modifier followed by the desired host name of the VM - so it is not named the default node1. If a hostname is supplied with an improper format...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Remedy AR 20.2 gateway

we need to integrate Omnibus 8.1 with remedy AR 20.2however the only available gateways is up to remedy version 9.1we need to have a gateway for remedy AR 20.2 to be able to do the integration.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration