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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 Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Add Repository Parameter for Proxy Artefact Servers

Problem:---------- The current Instana Synthetics Helm chart is using static URLs and paths to the container images. In an Enterprise Context, it is not always possible to access external Docker repos directly. Therefore teams has to use an intern...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

Change operational principles of burned elements

The Customer uses substitution devices in critical infrastructure nodes in the event of a failure of the main devices. substituted devices use the same IP, but vary in the sysName and physical address. An additional requirement from the customer i...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Delivered

DB2 Log_space percentage monitoring.

In this use case the customer Julie Yates wants to monitor log_space from her DB2 servers based on percentage. Since her team has multiple DB2 servers and the log_space may differ from one database to another, the ideal monitoring for this metric ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Delivered

Improve Redisson support for Java apps

Improve Redisson support for Java apps. By Github stars, Redisson is the most popular redis client for Java apps (amongst others like Lettuce and Jedis). However, Instana stopped supporting Redisson some time ago: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/insta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Support for SHA256 and SHA512 authentication protocols (ISM - snmpwalk)

The Customer needs support for SHA256 and SHA512 authentication protocols when using snmpwalk via ISM agent while monitoring Checkpoint devices. In the latest R81 software for Checkpoint, sha1 and md5 protocols are no longer available which means ...
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Delivered

When the rate of resize is NOT 3 – show the desired end state. – let it be clear that it will take more steps to get to desired state.

If a customer has a Rate of Resize set to 2-Medium then Turbonomic will create an action to take it 25% of the way to the optimal value. And this jump (let’s say 32GB –> 34 GB memory) appears in the Action and Details. The optimal value is 8GB ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Policies relating to a VM should always show under policies for an entity even if not active - ideally with the related schedule.

If I, a customer, attach a policy schedule to a policy (often by accident instead of an execution schedule) it is not easy to find. I am trying to understand the behaviour of a VM, so I got to that VM and look in the policies tab. I THINK that the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Rate of Resize should have default of 3 High.

Make the Default Rate of Resize 3-High. Currently for on-prem the rate of resize has a default value of 2-Medium. This means that for both upsize and downsize recommendations – the action suggested is only 25% of the way to the optimal desired state.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

A new JBoss 7 Sensor dicovery

The current JBoss7 discovery in a managed domain, when an environment is discovered for the first time, it expected to start with the discovery of a host, which acts as a JBoss domain controller, and then it is possible to run a discovery of domai...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered