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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 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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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

Differentiate between Agent and JVM offline events.

It is not possible to differentiate between a JVM going offline and if there is a communication drop with the Instana agent. This has been discussed with IBM support TS013050872. Request for service improvement to be able to tell the difference so...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Limiting host agent CPU installed using Archive (tar.gz) technology

The agent is being installed using the static host agent tar.gz file provided by the Backend, the compress file is copied and extracted on the target host. Then, the agent is configured as needed. Using the archive technology (tar.gz) you can limi...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Reminder message for user if the logging level is left outside of Info.

Oftentimes if there is an issue where a customer has to do some deep digging on an issue the logging level is changed from Info to perhaps Debug or Trace level. Sometimes mistakes are made and the logging level is not set back to Info. When this h...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add imported groups to the Groups management page

Idea: Add a new section to the Settings|Groups management page that shows imported groups and their origin Currently, when you navigate to Settings|Groups, you do not see groups that have been imported from vCenter or other targets. The imported ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

nco_config should not close an edit window upon hitting ESC

When editing a trigger or a procedure in nco_config, hitting ESC closes the window without any warning.If you are used to vi, then hitting ESC just happens - and all your work is gone.At least a warning box should appear, or ESC should be suppress...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Saving NCO_PA configuration file via CLI utility

We can customize (add processes and services) of Process Agent settings via CLI nco_pa_addentry utility, but all new implemented settings can not be saved by any CLI tool.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration