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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 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.

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To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.

To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Detecting When Devices are Unvailable and Be Notified

For example: If a device is via SNMP and ICMP not available/reachable, then it is most likely down (severity: critical). Otherwise, it is still up (severity: error). So that I can better distinguish whether a device is actually down
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Have a way to control how many action to send to ServiceNow

We would like to integrate our Turbonomic with ServiceNow for VM right-sizing actions. But we found out that once we turn on that automation, Turbonomic is going to send all (1000+) of actions to ServiceNow ... that is not acceptable as it will fl...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Filesystem specific statistics

Only these file system statistics metrics are available on the Host level Dashboard: capacity, used, leaked, inode usage. But we need additional statistics too. For examples: Read Calls Percent: Of the total number of calls made to the NFS serve...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

instana ELK plugin is not working as expected if we use someother logshipper like vector

out setup Instana version : 241 Elastic version 8.2 Kibana : Stack Management 8.2.3 vector: 0.27.0-debian if I click on pod or container link as it launching the correct kibana dashboard without any logs as there are some issue in filter string it...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Customer would like to show router redundancy per device in either a tab or a Network View

Customer is on ITNM 4.2 FP14 and would like to have the "show router redundancy" per device either in a tab or in a Network View.
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

analytics - dynamic column width

We use Instana to log behaviour of mobile app. the issue is even with large screen, and small font, the browser cannot display properly the column, in analytics, custom events, or analytics - http request : because all column have the same size, e...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration