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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 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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Please certify the ServiceNow Gateway for the Washington DC instance

The latest release of ServiceNow is Washington DC, however the ServiceNow Gateway is only certified up to the Utah release.
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Business require synthetic test to run during business hours

I have a business unit who require a synthetic test to run during the work week between 08:00 and 17:00. At present you can only specify how offen the test should run specification .
19 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Add Notification Center notifications to your workflow

I would like to be able to automatically post on Slack etc. when there is a Notification Center notification in the workflow. There may be situations where you cannot find a target on holidays or when you are not watching Turbonomic, so we would a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Under review

Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Exact Topology Template must allow deselecting neighbourong nodes

In the exact topology templates while choosing the neighbouring nodes it is vital to allow updating the neighbouring vertex by removing some the already choosen vertex as neighbours. At the moment, topology vertex can only be added and once they a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
21 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Turbonomic should interact with OpenShift API for delete actions.

Turbonomic should interact with the OpenShift API for delete actions on volumes. This will allow the cluster to clean up necessary objects like the PV and PVC configurations while deleting the backend volume. This would also solve PaaS specific is...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review