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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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Add the ability to use external-secrets to the config for self-hosted POP

We do not want to put our Instana key in github and would like to be able to use external-secrets similar to how we do with the instana-agent.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

RunBook Automation - SSH Encryption Method - Ed25519

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it is much more secure than SSH-RSA Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase security when using SSH with the product. How should it...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

install LWA with a local system user that will not requires any password

Modify the install process for a LWA so it reqires no password to be input or the LWA can just interact with the Local System Account TS005072883
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add support for Ed25519 SSH keys in Discovery Credentials.

Add support for using Ed25519 SSH keys with Discovery Credentials using pki authentication.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

to extract from Azure the fact that a disk is an OS disk or a data disk without needing to rely on a naming standard

this will make it easier to associate different policies associated to the different disk types
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered

License consumption split on Windows, Linux, DBs, etc in Turbonomic

It is good to know how many licenses we are spending on each category and will have better understanding of profitable utilization on them
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 4 Delivered

Extra function for auto approve storage "Move volume" actions

we would like to make more use of “auto approve” our storage moves actions But ideally we would like the actions to prioritise certain smaller VMs first and also only move larger VM’s between certain times. An initial thought would be to create a ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

Add "load more" button to see more than 10 items on the tile instead of grouping under others. Or add option while creating editing tile to add more than 10 items in the list.

Add "load more" button to see more than 10 items on the tile instead of grouping under others. Or add option while creating editing tile to add more than 10 items in the list.
8 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered