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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 Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

Offering a "community edition" with certain limitations.

To sell the product as a Product Lead, it is necessary to adopt an SMB business approach of getting more users to try it first. In this case, as with many other SMB products, a license that is available for free use in the customer's environment i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Provide typings for NodeJS @instana/collector package

It would be nice to have typings for IDE Intellisense and compile-time checks, as originally requested in https://github.com/instana/nodejs/pull/458. I believe that Typescript plays an increasingly important role in the NodeJS ecosystem with frame...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Node 1 Not under consideration

for a user to share a PLAN with another users, OR ...somehow make the PLAN accessible by other users.

for a user to share a PLAN with another users, OR ...somehow make the PLAN accessible by other users. If I create a PLAN on turbonomic, I would like some other users to be able to see/run that PLAN. Need a way to share a PLAN or to make certain PL...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 5 Future consideration

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML emails

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML email format in the Body. Current email probe is capable of reading only plain text. Many users are looking for converting html email into an alert. It requires lot of efforts to write rules for reading HTML em...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Backup resource advisor URL

We have automated the agent install process in our environment completely, but when ever we perform the Disaster Recovery Test and switch to Backup master, all the new agent installs needs o updated manually (JobManager.ini) with the Backup master...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

While WebSphere supports MFA redirection but WebGUI is not tested nor supported

Currently WAS Security configurations (such as authentication) are strictly configured at the WebSphere level. From our discussion with our WAS team we understand now that for MFA, Websphere would only need to be configured to redirect to either a...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration