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Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Planned for future release

Explanation of the new UI, new feature updates, survey display when logging in, the ability to suppress

Starting with the latest version of Turbonomic, It displays ofhen updating new features and entering survey information. Service provider users who log in multiple times have pointed out that this screen display is unnecessary and cumbersome.Pleas...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Better Overview of Hybrid environment managed by Turbonomic

Better breakdown of larger supply chain and easy to get VMware, Cloud, Containers segregated information
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Resizing widget locks scope. This is wrong behavior.

To reproduce, Search for Host clusters. Select any cluster. On the overview screen, resize the Host optimized improvements chart. Now as you advance through the other clusters, while other widgets will show that they are now scoped to the new clus...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Add a new column with sharing URL inside downloaded csv file of Turbo recommendations

Requests to include a column that includes the sharing URL for each recommendation.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists