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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 Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Export of custom dashboards in global export

Hello,Can you add the export of custom dashboards and datasources in the global export in the DWC.
22 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Allow choose direction of action for Cloud Native Plans

If you plan a Cloud Native cluster optimization, it only permit choose scale or not. If it's possible to pick just resize down container spec and/or resize up, users will know the difference between actions. This is aligned with: https://ideas.ibm...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Submitted

Review default resources for Instana standard

Dear Colleagues, we tried to install Standard Instana in production and demo modes on bare metal server in IBM Cloud and faced issues with logging to Instana backend: * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):* OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERRO...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need to check number of open files for Instana standard

Dear colleagues, We have a customer with Baremetal server for Instana who faced unexpected Instana behaviour after installing. The problem was that by default servers have default number of open files per user - 1024. It was hard to troubleshoot i...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana DB oprator for power : Images should be pulled with digest and not tag

Background: In an OpenShift disconnection installation you have to configure the ImageContentSourcePolicy the way, that the original source path of the images are mapped to the mirror registry path where the image(s) have been uploaded to. By defa...
13 days ago in Instana / Automation 1 Submitted

Instana Agents Installation on FIPS Enabled Hosts

Instana agent installation fails on hosts that have FiPS enabled. The only way that we found to install on these hosts is manually using the following command: sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest --nofiledigest Since this command is bypassing a security meas...
13 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
19 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Get skupper-router in the SaaS product to use a valid cert signed by a public CA for TLS transport during token exchange with on-prem appliance

Token exchange is failing through our transparent Internet proxies because an untrusted internal CA certificate from the skupper-router is being used for both TLS transport and mTLS. The untrusted cert is causing the connection to be reset by the ...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted