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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
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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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

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

Integrate the capability to connect to a vault to get target credentials

In many different organizations, the security teams are more and more pushing the use of vaults to store system accounts or system to system credentials. Turbonomic is connecting to many different infrastructure management systems like the Cloud A...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

User role impactOpViewUser should not allow editing and deleting Operator Views

An explicit 'user' role should not allow 'admin' tasks such as editing and deleting components that are relevant to other users. However, this is the case with the Impact role impactOpViewUser. Users with this role are allowed to edit and delete a...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

IBM Netcool Omnibus Kafka Message Bus Probe to support protobuf message format parsing.

We are currently looking for an option to have an enhancement for Kafka message bus Probe, to be able to parse protobuf message format. We were implementing a new integration with the Nokia FSS system’s Kafka environment, using the Kafka message b...
13 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

New functionality in Tejas NMS for Event Loss occurred/cleared Notification

Dear team, Section 2.2.3.3 of the attached document refers to Notification for "Event Loss occurred/cleared Notification" Following is the description of functionality: NMS will send the Event Loss occurred/cleared event in case of the following s...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Support for GPU instances in Azure environments

Similar to AWS, Azure also has instances that use GPUs, but they are not supported yet. Some customers operate LLM applications with AKS, so support that kind of environment is appreciated.
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Turbonomic Connector: Manual synchronization of approvals towards SNOW

Hello, With current implementation, all the recommendations generated by Turbo are synchronized towards SNOW and CRs are generated. This can cause "pollution" as we would like to see in SNOW only the recommendations we know they will be approved b...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Under review