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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 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

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Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Filter/sort user-created groups by creator and create date

Groups can get unmanageable very quickly. Allowing users to be able to see the following fields would be incredibly helpful for maintenance and operations: Creator Created date Last modified Last modified by Please also allow sorting and filtratio...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add Entity Aspects to SaaS Reporting

In recreating some of the Embedded Reporting dashboards used in the field, there are cases where aspect data was used in the reports. It would be great to see many of these aspects added to the SaaS reporting for clients to be able to have access ...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

ASM 1.1.15: Columns in searchlist of Resource Manager should be sortable and filterable; sort by resource status needed

When we look into the page „Resource Management“ e.g. on Resource Groups, then after adding a search string, a table is shown with the resource groups found. Unfortunately this table is not sortable by any of its columns and also not filterable by...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboard Trafficlight widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 5 Planned for future release

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release