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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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Cognos report for all Chassis

We have the requirement to report on all Chassis that are discovered, in a similar format to the that of the report Card Detail by Device Type report. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/networkmanager/4.2.0?topic=reports-card-detail-by-device-type-report...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Reporting: Other category for chart visualisation

Looking for Other Category for Chart visualisation over Cognos Analytics Reporting
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Put all actions together, regardless of whether they are complete or not

If there are some actions that you're trying to monitor within one change window and some take longer than others, or some don't trigger until a later time, or whatever other reason there might be, you will be in a place where your actions and exe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Not under consideration

WebLogic GridLink DataSources Monitoring

Customer is having many WebLogic instances in production environment configured with GridLink Datasources. This feature is required to monitor using Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Recommend expand disk/volume in Cloud.

In Cloud environment. If I find that the disk is almost full, will Turbo automatically recommend to expand the volume size for fixing disk full? In document, I found some recommendation on IOPs, Throughput and unattached volume deletion. So, It's ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Event Rule file detection at start up

File monitoring in Event Rules currently does not detect pre-existing files at startup. I would like to option to have file be detected at monman startup.The PMR field does not accept the new Sales Force case number it is (TS001148396)
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support for Nutanix AHV/Prism Central tags

Customer has requested tag support for Nutanix AHV / Prism. Customer noted that tags are only available on Prism Central and not Prism Element. We are currently discovering Nutanix via adding each Element as a Turbo target. It is unclear if Turbon...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Improve Group and Policy Setup UX for Common Use Cases

Improve the policy setup UX for common use cases such as one-time host and/or storage migrations. Ideas mentioned by the customer included an option to auto-create the groups and policies required to execute a plan in production, and/or using a wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Show all database traces even if they all succeed

We opened a case for missing database calls and learned how Instana works for successful calls. The engineering team sent us the following quote, "Span batching in general doesn't consider the payloads. The rules are based on span metadata like d...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Focus precedence does not correspond to the logical processing sequence.

- The precedence of the elements in the source code should correspond the logical/visual processing sequence. - The elements should be resorted correspondingly on source code level.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 7 Planned for future release