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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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Device Type Classification in SevOne REST API

My team owns IBM CP4AIOPS ASM observer that responsible for resource topology discovery. We do have an integration with SevOne, called SevOne Observer. At the moment. I have a request from StarHub and EastLink on the capability for AIOPs to classi...
21 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Export/Send Page from Action Details Dashboard

From the Action Details page (for a specific resource), there should be a way to export the dashboard view or email a read only link to a stakeholder who you wish to share the finding details, in order to seek approval to Execute Action. It's not ...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
22 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Synthetic Secret Management

For Scripted Tests, there is a need for API Keys. These keys are secrets and need a limited visibility scope
28 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
28 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

True additive group scopes

Currently the group membership model is complicated, and counter-intuititve. If Group A is Access all, and Group B is no access to -say- Infrastructure, a user joining Group A would have full access. If they were to later join Group B, they would ...
30 days ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Future consideration

Support Azure Databases beyond MS SQL

Today Turbonomic only support DBaaS for Azure, workloads with DB Engine MS SQL Server. Customer have Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB too. My customer for instance has more than 50% of databases Postgres.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Monitor AWS Internet GW

This will provide metric collections in AWS for internet traffic
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Future consideration