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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 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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Topology Manager Observer for Versa SD WAN

Customer RFP to replace Ericson CNEX is asking for a service assurance solution that includes events, topology and performance. We can collect performance data with SevOne and events with Message Broker probe, the only missing part is topology.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic to give recommendations for Azure VM Scale Sets.

A lot of corporations have Azure VM Scale Sets which are improperly configured. They are set to scale OUT but not IN. And there is a lot of waste. Would love it if VM Scale Sets are treated differently and recommendations given - e..g SCALE IN for...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Add metrics for AWS plugin

Disney is looking to collect additional metrics for their AWS monitoring.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Future consideration

WebGUI - Warning message on executing right click tools

Requirement:On executing right click tool in WebGui for multiple alerts a warning message should be displayed. Right click tools configuration should have the capability where we can define some kind of threshold on number of alerts selected and d...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AI Manager to send the story via email.

AI Manager can only send notifications using slack or Microsoft Teams. Some customers does not have ChatOps. Why not to allow AI manager to send them email notification so they can utilize the feature.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Block ability to start Batchman during Switchplan

Following an issue with a corrupt TWS master (see TS013817687) we would like to request that something is implemented to stop anyone performing a "Batchman Start" when switch plan (or any other job/process that could result in such severe corrupti...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Request for more options in Rate of Resize

We are trying to get automated resizing implemented at Bank of New York Mellon and we are currently in the testing phase and all is going well other than the Rate of Resize. As you know you can scale by 1, a few, or straight to best recommendation...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Future consideration

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration