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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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Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
14 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

I would like to be able to create policies with someone other than "Site Administrator".

Many systems are already managed by one Turbonomic, but we want to leave policy management to individual system administrators. (a specific non-administrator user on turbonomic who only has limited group acess but able to create new automation pol...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to create ONT entities.

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to build and create topology between OLT -> ONU.
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Under review

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time.

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time. If showing for all VM is too hard due to resource perspective, it is ok to run as "Plan" basis and show the result in a screen.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

It would be desirable if multiple currencies could be handled by one Turbonomic

Currently, only one currency symbol can be set, so if AWS (USD) and Azure (Yen) are mixed, it will be confusing. Each time, we create a group just for AWS and refer to that dashboard, which is cumbersome.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Provision to export the topology Data into Excel from Topology Viewer page.

Topology Viewer ASM page has options to export the topology to PNG, SVG Format. Need an option to export the topology to Excel.
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add MongoDB package to the synthetic monitoring script runners

Please add the official MongoDB NodeJS driver package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongodb) to the script VM runners that are utilized by the Synthetic Monitoring Tests. Package can be used to enable Synthetic moniroring tests and smart alerts t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Planned for future release