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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 on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Zabbix v6.2 integration (scripts) for on-prem Netcool Message Bus probe (webhook)

Cloudpak currently provides the ability to generate scripts to run on the Zabbix admin server - which include the CEM webhook URL etc where Zabbix would then POST events to (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.1?topic=SSTPTP_1.6.1/com.ibm.netcool_...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

configure RBAC on dashboards so that groups of people can edit/manage/view

The RBAC model isn't very mature, and if someone is an owner of a dashboard, only they can edit it. what happens if a change is needed when someone is away?Being able to group dashboards would also help with usability
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 6

Handle http status code 0 not as error

Envoy is becoming a popular reverse proxy in the cloud native space. Although it is supported by Instana for monitoring and tracing, we found one case where traces are marked as erroneous, but should not be: Client disconnects. When a client close...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

API - Kubernetes Pod Memory/CPU Usage

The catalog API call for kubernetes pod metrics (/api/infrastructure-monitoring/catalog/metrics/kubernetesPod) got me the following output: "metricId":"cpuRequests" "metricId":"memoryLimits" "metricId":"container_count" "metricId":"memoryRe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

NFS share observability metrics

The customer is currently utilizing NFS shares for diverse applications, including the active-passive availability of their IT systems. They have expressed an interest in integrating the Instana observability platform to monitor their NFS shares e...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Add the tenant unit names in the short URLs

Currently, the short URL contains the base URL for all tenant units in the customer’s environment. The customer would like to configure different short URLs for different tenant units. Thanks.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

AWS Private Link required

We have not rolled out Instana to even half of the required systems in the bank and our egres costs are escalating very quickly and we would be able to manage it with the introduction of AWS Private Link from Capitec to Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

For HA workloads (consistent resize), allow Match Cores

Today Turbonomic matches utilization based on MHz. There are use cases for when teams would want to have all their vms have matching core counts. Please add functionality to match by core count for Consistent Resize capability.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps : Event Manager UI Concurrent Users

The concurrent users for the event manager shows max supported are 130 as per the documentation , For Etisalat we have over 1400 users and we need this feature immediately as we are planning for deployment that architecture should meet the custome...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration