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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...
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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Migration feature should not be visible for all

Currently the Migration feature can be accessed by any user logged into Instana. I was able to test and reproduce this behaviour on a local On-Prem install by enabling the following feature flag: configMigrationFeatureEnabled Any user can then see...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Not under consideration

More granular approach to Scheduling permissions in ParkMyCloud

All would benefit This would allow PMC Admins the ability to provide Team Leads and Team members with more scheduling flexibility while still maintaining limits no IaaS uptime How this could work: Currently in ParkMyCloud, there is a single checkb...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Enhances Schedule Permissions and Schedule Visibility

Useful for all: Anyone can use and benefit from this Large scale implementations benefit: ParkMyCloud users and team leads in larger organizations would benefit most How it would work: 1: There needs to be a concept of Enterprise Schedules , Team ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Scaling powered off VMs

There are numerous scenarios where a VM is powered off and can/should be scaled. Once a workload is powered off though, the action goes away. I think it's important to allow these resources to be resized before they're powered on and requiring ano...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1

Manual seeding option is not available

As of now we dont have the option of manually adding the devices into INM and it is not supported. With the current design this option is only available to ping based discovery. Adding the Ad-hoc device is not possible so can you guys add this fun...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Onboarding requires ICMP response

For onboarding any new device in to the infrastructure it needs to have proper ICMP response, without that the servers cannot be onboarded. As per IBM, in file based discovery the device might be pollable even when ICMP is not working. In our curr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Device gets automatically deleted after 3 retries if not pingable/SNMP pollable

When a device gets added to the list and by chance if the server is not pingable / SNMP pollable then as per the current design the device gets deleted from the list automatically. There are instances where the servers might be in DMZ and they mig...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Maintenance Mode to send notification when CI is put into Maintenance Mode

When a user creates a Maintenance Schedule we don't have any option of notifying the user on whether the schedule is created successfully or not. Currently there is no notification for either creating / after the schedule ends.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Windows Service status

It would be great if we could see and alert on the status of Windows Services, Running, Stopped, Started etc. The current "Services" section in the configuration file is really just process monitoring. We need a clear distinction between the two.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2

Turbonomic on EKS with Turbonomic provided ingress and TLS termination at Load Balancer - Documentation is incomplete/inaccurate

Scenario: Customer is deploying Turbonomic platform on EKS cluster with Turbonomic provided nginx ingress. It needs to terminate TLS at the ELB. Issue with Documentation: The provided documentation at "https://github.com/turbonomic/t8c-install/wik...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 5 Not under consideration