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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 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 Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Under review

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Under review

Dashboard threshold and Y-Axis label

Currently the charts are miss understandable because of the missing y-axis label and the missing possibility to paint a simple line Threshold Line Make it possible to add a line or two in the charts to visualize good an not so good values. Maybe a...
2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

ASM ITNM Observer should support Node to Node links

Currently ASM ITNM Observer shall bring in port to port level or Interface to Interface level link connectivity from ITNM Topology to ASM Topology but do miss the Node to Node or Chassis to Chassis level inferred connections. So ASM ITNM Observer ...
23 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for IBM FlashSystem devices under IBM SVC management

Currently, Turbonomic doesn't support FlashSystem under SVC as its considerations. One of my potential Turbo customer has FlashSystem with SVC.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Add possibility for multiple Gate.Jdbc.Url's in JDBC gateway properties file

Is it useful for installations where for example DB2 databases are hosted on remote locations in different subnets (like geo redundant data centers) where virtual ip address cannot be created. Everybody with such db2 database would benefit from it...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ITNCM utility - icosutility (ResourceUtility) to allow encrypted password as argument when running via CLI interface

Why Icosutil allows creation of items like realms, RADs, NCS etc, which would otherwise need to be created via the GUI and typically is a time taking task. Who Operator and Administrators of the application will be able to install and configure th...
about 2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Under review

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
26 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review