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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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Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to create ONT entities.

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to build and create topology between OLT -> ONU.
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Enable Turbonomic to support Red Hat OpenStack and any OpenStack

I have a client who have Turbonomic subscription and use Red Hat OpenStack and Ubuntu OpenStack as standard virtual machine infrastructure. The latest version of Turbonomic do not support OpenStack. We need to request add Openstack support in prod...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 9 Not under consideration

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Needs more information

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
3 months ago in Instana / Python 2 Planned for future release

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Having real names against usernames

Minor thing .. when creating a user on the appliance, any chance extra fields for that users real name, department and contact details ?
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
26 days ago in Instana / PHP 1 Submitted