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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...
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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Extra function for auto approve storage "Move volume" actions

we would like to make more use of “auto approve” our storage moves actions But ideally we would like the actions to prioritise certain smaller VMs first and also only move larger VM’s between certain times. An initial thought would be to create a ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 2 Delivered

Add visibility into/present RFH2 (MQ/ACE) header elements in call analysis

RFH2 can contain arbitrary information in the form of xml element, which may be of interest to track/find specific messages (calls) based on whatever the client choose to put in the RFH2 header. This could give us an even greater advantage when sp...
10 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Delivered

Rate of Resize should have default of 3 High.

Make the Default Rate of Resize 3-High. Currently for on-prem the rate of resize has a default value of 2-Medium. This means that for both upsize and downsize recommendations – the action suggested is only 25% of the way to the optimal desired state.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
10 months ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered

Containerised distributed Dynamic Agent support for Remote Gateways

Installations of IWS/d 9.X & 10.1 in a virtualised or physcal infrastructure currently supports remote GW for Dynamic Agents (see link below). Containerised Dynamic agents do not support this configuration as the GW is hard coded to localhost....
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

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
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Customer (PNC) requests that we create a custom script to get container resize actions data.

Very useful for the capacity team to show the container savings to the application owners.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Field Integrations 0 Delivered

Add tags to k8s-sensor

We would like to add tags to the new k8s-sensor in the same way we add tags to Instana agents. In our case we are using your Helm chart to deploy Instana in kubernetes clusters and we are using the k8s-sensor: https://github.com/instana/helm-chart...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Add resourceId to the actions api endpoint

Adding the resourceId to the actions api endpoint would be useful for users so that actions can be easily linked back to the azure resources that they are being taken on. This will also allow users to create savings reports where they can easily i...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / Public Cloud IaaS / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered