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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Quantify Risk Across the Components (Clusters, VMs, Apps)

Today clients or service providers are not able to quantify the risk across the components of their enterprise due to the following challenges: Compliance is a complex process covering many security processes including but not limited to Patching,...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

What happened to Filters?

Our cluster was running 8.7.5 release and filters worked like a charm in Target Configuration. I could filter by Hypervisor Type and other parameters. Since we upgraded to 8.8.3 release, the only filter criteria available is Account/Subscription S...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Missing condition "OR" while configuring thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss condition "OR" while configuring thresholds. Our customer uses it in Tivoli Monitoring situations. Customer seeks for transition to Instana, so its implementation is highly demanded or at least any analog. Below...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Delivered

Inter domain stitching between /30 and /31 subnets

Bharti Airtel is a very big network with lot of devices connected with each other. Recently we started to face lot of issue saying connectivity between various devices is not working. And on further drill down, it was learnt that the A side and B ...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Native ActionScript Container

Having an optional integrated ActionScript container provided in the Turbonomic appliance, akin to the Grafana container, would ease the implementation of ActionScripts if the environment Turbonomic managing is locked down. Additionally, allowing ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 3 Delivered

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation. Instana injects a 12 MB jar file in the /tmp folder if pods in the OCP cluster. If the pods do not have enough space, then the pods may be evicted. By checking if there is enough space be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered

Ability to resize Azure App Service Plans

Our app service plan environment is extremely overprovisioned, similar to our Virtual Machines, disks, and databases because of the ease of resizing through azure portal. Some of these plans cost a significant amount of money, and they are seeing ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 5 Delivered

.NET support for AWS Lambda runtime

.NET is currently not supported in the AWS Lambda runtime for agent deployment. We are running a .NET Lambda application which requires tracing to be included in part of an Application perspective.
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered

Recalculate smart alert baseline via API

We're managing multiple instana backends via API configuration. This works for many configuration items. However it doesn't work for Smart Alerts with a daily or weakly seasonality. Seasonality differs per system. While it is possible to recalcula...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered