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Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under consideration

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 4 Not under consideration

TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Security and Compliance 2 Not under consideration

Filter Kubernetes namespaces

In some cases, customers want to install IBM Instana host agent on K8s workers nodes from K8s cluster managed by third party and used by several clients (shared resources). If worker nodes are dedicated for a customer, it could be great to be able...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Instana presents resource usage additionally display information from a cluster perspective.

The Ccstomer has presented their requirements for monitoring VMware content. Currently, Instana presents resource usage from a data center perspective, but they wish to additionally display information from a cluster perspective
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

The ability to configure a schedule in our policy CR

For resizing operations (vertical scaling) our users are going to want to control when automatic actions are applied. Via the UI I do see an option to create a policy schedule.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration