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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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Allow better group search/filtration

Reposting TURBO-I-342 because it was incorrectly closed. Do not close this and mark it as "already exists" because it doesn't. We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best espe...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Native Connect to Cloud Pak 4 Data

ANZ has installed both Turbonomics and Cloud Pak for Data for different purposes Turbonomic's takes a number of data feeds from multiple IT Systems (e.g. vCentre, HyperV, HP Open View, Storage, OpenShift, Splunk and ServiceNow etc) providing analy...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Resize Recommendation is below default policy settings

Turbonomic console recommendation gives adjustments below default settings causing our estimates to be wrong pre and post activities. The total at the top of Pending Actions dialogue shows all recommendations even below minimums. We need to be abl...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Functionality already exists

Add field "IP Address" in comparison table

If there is a field displaying the IP address, it will be more convenient to identify the host. It's best to provide users with a way to customize the table using the provided field selection.
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Limit NCIM Connectionpool in DASH

When having ITNM integrated into DASH, we can see quite a lot of connections going from the DASH server to the database. This is due to the connection pool being for the ITNM GUIs to connect to the database. We'd like to have an option to limit th...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Support for adding a Promethues target protected by user and token through prometurbo/turbodiff

Enterprise clients usually have access to prometheus api protected by authetication with user and token. At the moment connection with such target fails with the following log in turbodiff pod: 418044 1 discovery_client.go:142] Metric endpoints [h...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Planned for future release

DWC - Filters Improvements

We have more than one team that manages the production environment and in most of the time each team takes care of a group of applications running under IWS. Using standards for Job, JobStream and Resource names we managed to create filters that c...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Host sensor needs to be able to monitor NIC status

Customers need to understand the status of their NICs to ensure that their networking is functioning properly. Currently, the Instana Host Agent only collects the performance metrics of the NICs and not the satus.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration