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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...
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...

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Follow VM start & stop order on vSphere policy

After vSphere v6.7,  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-7A132146-2779-4F4B-B39D-EE4F129DB79C.html There is a feature that allows administrators to control the order in which VMs are started and stopp...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Future consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Adding default component statuses logging to default logging level

In cases TS004816821 and TS004896360 the customer faced problems with setting an optimal debug level to monitor the status of components. In case TS004816821 the customer had a fatal error when LDR did not send any data for approximately 4 days. I...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Request an add-on managing SAP Financial Closing Cockpit

The business want Workload Scheduler to manage SAP Financial Closing Cockpit processes just as it does all other SAP jobs. They would like a seamless tool to automate all SAP processes. SAP Financial Closing Cockpit Add-On supports integration wit...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Notification Toggle

After discussion with Business Partner in Taiwan, they would like to promote Turbonomic to their customers who also using AWS. However, their customer's AWS account is Block Billing, which means the AWS cost explorer API is not accessible in the c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

OpenTelementry OTLP Connector for AI Manager

OpenTelementry is an observability standard to generate, collect and transmit key telemetry signals (traces, metrics and logs). Instead of relaying the collected data via a intermediate toolings (e.g. ELK, prometheus) from instrumented application...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to set std_table_dot_walk parameter in servicenow-observer job UI

When discovering resources using the servicenow-observer for large CI tables an error is flagged up regarding pagination and suggestion in the manual is to set std_table_dot_walk=false via swagger. Now the manual is pretty poor when it comes to ho...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Supports HTTP Tracing for ppc64le little-endian architecture

Important finance company in Peru, is about to acquire Instana and needs to monitor with Instana agents the trace of its web servers. This is possible but the architecture is not supported.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba: Similar to other ports, the probe should identify a firewall issue with ORBLocalPort if any

Due to firewall or networking issue probe unable to Sync the events from EMS/Spectrum server. We discovered the fault by manual observations as there is no notification or exception for this issue in the probe. Therefore, it is difficult to resolv...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - Add support for WinRM connectivity

Why is it useful? - This would give a (more?) secure option to connect to Windows servers, which is built in to the OS, instead of requiring SSH Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this, particul...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration