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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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AWS Observer Configuration Requires Support for the New Regions Added by AWS

From the Documentation at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/nasm/1.1.20?topic=ui-configuring-aws-observer-jobs. Under the AWS Observer Load Job Parameters, the Region configuration is currently a Drop-Down Selection of Regions supported by AWS However A...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow label mapping in analytics or custom dashboards

Example use: Visualizaton of kubernetes metrics e.g. for resource_limits
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Functionality already exists

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
over 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Adding the ability to create new user roles or edit existing default ones

The rationale behind this stemmed up when I was trying to allow a user or multiple teams to edit maps inside DI. hen I found out I have to assign either "Super Admin" or "Tenant Admin" role to the target user/group in order to have this permission...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Enable Group selection on the Plan Feature 'Host Clusters to Merge'

Hi, I am requesting to be able to pick groups of hosts on the plan feature "Host Clusters to Merge". Cause we have different groups for our clusters and hosts and I am not able to use them for the plan feature and have to pick the clusters manuall...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI

Provide capability to enable two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI, e.g. AD authentication and SecureID passcode
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - conditional logic in the runbook/automation editor

Why is it useful? - Right now RBA allows no custom conditional logic to chain together runbooks/automations, which is handy to build end-to-end automation workflow. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of RBA, everyone would be able to build...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Custom dashboards - Jump to analytics view in custom dashboard based on widgets metrics, aggregations, filter queries

We though it would be cool if it would be possible to jump from custom dashboard panel to analytics just as in application perspective summary.
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Support for Elasticsearch 8.12.x

Hi team, Customer has been using Elasticsearch for a few years and asked support since version 8.1.x but now has 8.12.x and the latest we support is 8.11.x Please enable support for version 8.12.x, this is important to monitor production systems. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists