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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 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...

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Ability to freeze generated actions for a specific group

I would like the ability to freeze the generated actions for a specific group so that when we notify resources owners of the action a week prior, we take that specific action or none at all on their resource. For example: We sent out notifications...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Not under consideration

Allow Account Administrator to delete any user created dashboards

As an account administrator, I am able to create and share dashboards to all users. Any user with the "workload optimizer observer" role is also able to create and share dashboards to all users. Occasionally, new users within turbo (IWO) create da...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Enable VM group creation by filtering on VMware Horizon Persistence state (Persistent vs Non-Persistent VM)

Being able to create Turbonomic groups based on whether a VM is a Persistent or Non-Persistent VDI instance would allow Turbo automation to be managed based on the instance type.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release

Move Pool Workstation without having to create Mirror Pool

We need to have the ability to move a Pool Workstation around between Dynamic Domain Managers (DDM) without having to create a mirror of it on the target DDM. This would be MDM to DDM or even DDM to DDM. The benefit of this would be to avoid all t...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Object rules APIs missing in version 6.3

We are opting new design for sevOne NMS , as part of which we are keeping all the objects disabled by default and enabling objects by writing include object rule. This demands writing several object rules. I want to create object rules using autom...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

able to have an option to change EUM reportingURL in snippet in the UI.

Currently in Instana K8s operator the AcceptorUrls seem to be solely based on the baseDomain. This is then used also in the UI in EUM Website Configuration in reportingUrl and script src, e.g.: <script> (function(s,t,a,n){s[t]||(s[t]=a,n=s[a...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Ability to custom process name

All our process are named "java", notifications and event regarding the process (like "abnormal termination") are all refereeing to "java process"; I would like to have the possibility to custom it like we do for services.
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Automation within Huawei's Fusionsphere

Resource optimization for VMs working in Huawei's fusionsphere
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Configure ACE Sensor to authenticate through LDAP

ACE RestAdminApi is configured to be accessed with LDAP authentication. While Instana is asking for local user. We need to be able to configure instana agent to access ACE using LDAP
10 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration