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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...
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...

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DWC Tabs to be named with the name of the Task

1. When a Task is launched from System Status & Health -> All Configured Tasks, the Task is launched in the same tab replacing the Task List. 2. The tab for Task list should stay as a separate tab so that other taks can be launched from it....
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to configure ulimits of instana containers (docker-based on-premise setup)

We recently had an issue with the max amount of open files per container. The Instana support told us, that there is currently no option to configure that. We'd love to configure that for specific containers in the settings.hcl file.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Customer requests that the networking portion of the Turbonomic supply chain show some data in the supply chain

Austin from TravelClick has a request that has some merit to it. The only way a person can see some real networking throughput numbers is to drill down to the VM level. We must be gathering the throughput numbers, yet when you click on networking ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output message when issue "chkconfig on" command

"Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output error messages when issuing "chkconfig on" command. " When we issue "chkconfig on" command at TSA environment, we receive some messages from insserv shown as foll...
about 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Request for a written description of detailed information in the TSA manuals

"Request for a written description of detailed information about relationship between OpState of resources and OpState of resource group, in Administrator's and User's Guide" This request comes from the PMR - 79859,6XM,760 (E54-z-79859)TSA V3.2.1 ...
about 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Schedule for recurring Plan execution

Customer wants to schedule some plans (for k8s, cloud, etc) using the UI. The reason is to keep snapshots on environments before and after big milestones (major updates, black friday, expected seasons) to user for future plans. It's like the same ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

The customer would like to have better support when identifying the outlying metric in a widget. Some ideas:* Sort the item in the tooltip according to the values* Only show items in the tooltip which have values* Show the whole legend as a table ...
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Report for All Types of Failed Jobs

We would like an option in the IWS reporting tool to display failed jobs (ex: jobs that fail because there are no resources available.) If a job creates any kind of error, (failed/abended/etc.), we want to be able to see it in a report to keep tra...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ASM HA Function on-prem

Please add ASM HA Function on-prem.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

NOI Scope Based Policy Table

US Cellular has requested to make the Scope Based Policy details to be exposed in a database so that they can build a dynamic dashboard to show the alarm reduction metrics.
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration