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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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Capture Restarts for PODs across time

To give a customer a visibility over how their PODs are performing, if there was any restart happening due to lack of Memory which could help the customer how application pods are performing and also can be used in the POV as how we are helping th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Implement multi-factor mechanisms (2FA+) for any authentication

Netcool Products, including Omnibus WebGui as well any IBM tool must adhere and comply to the Security and policy standards and ITSS advises and requests that 2FA is enable for all products
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improved scoping on Host Unavailability Detection

As a user wanting to detect host unexpectedly going offline, I want to be able to filter the scope of this detector based on attributes beyond just host tags (e.g., to exclude a few of the worker pools from alerting using DFQ such as "entity.selfT...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Improve context discovery for TOP widgets

There is no timeframe associated with the TOP widgets. The information displayed reflects the data collected during the most recent discovery cycle. Customers are confused when comparing the data from the TOP widget with data from other sources (e...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Naming convention while Importing policies from Targets

When Integrated with vCenter Target, Turbonomic is downloading Affinity policies defined in vCenter but naming in Turbonomic is completely changed. EndUser can't rename the policy names in Turbonomic as its ReadOnly. Customers exacts the naming ma...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Queued planning orchestration tied to automation

Would like to be able to create orchestration plans and priorities that drive automation within superclusters. Example: Create a proactive plan that as new hardware is added to a supercluster that older hardware is drained in the specified order a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Schedule X working day of the month

Hello.When planning in a distributed environment from the graphical console, I don't see the possibility of planning a certain working day of the month, I have seen that it allows planning, for example, the second calendar day of the month, or the...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Show status change history of MFT transfers

Our customer needs to track their MFT file transfers and they need to have insights in when file transfers change their status from Started to Progress and finally Successful or Failed. So we need some kind of table that lists all the status chang...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
7 months ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release