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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Azure Cosmo DB Storage

Instana does not analyze the behavior of Azure Cosmo DB Storage, it is necessary to be able to detect if there is a storage problem and alert about this.
13 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
19 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
21 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

RHEL OVA Template Option

With the recent announcement of CentOS going EoL, the Turbonomic OVA Template is being delivered on Rocky Linux beginning with 8.12.02. Unlike CentOS, Rocky is not approved for US Federal and will require extensive testing. RHEL is already adopted...
about 23 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Would like to be able to check who has logged into WebGUI in the past. Can get active users but would like to be able to report history of logged in users.

Audit of users for NOC managers and Audit teams.
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Please add support for Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage

Using Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-enable-performance?tabs=azure-cli ) an Azure customer can opt-in for this IOPS and thoughput for Azure disks. Please add support for ...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
4 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Authentication method to support OAUTH METHOD

Hi, While configuring the OAUTH method to run the Oracle integration cloud jobs we identified that there is need to add additional enhancement in the IWA restful plugin. Client authentication :- Send as Basic Auth header. Grant type : Password cre...
5 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted