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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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

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What happened to Filters?

Our cluster was running 8.7.5 release and filters worked like a charm in Target Configuration. I could filter by Hypervisor Type and other parameters. Since we upgraded to 8.8.3 release, the only filter criteria available is Account/Subscription S...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Missing condition "OR" while configuring thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss condition "OR" while configuring thresholds. Our customer uses it in Tivoli Monitoring situations. Customer seeks for transition to Instana, so its implementation is highly demanded or at least any analog. Below...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Delivered

Native ActionScript Container

Having an optional integrated ActionScript container provided in the Turbonomic appliance, akin to the Grafana container, would ease the implementation of ActionScripts if the environment Turbonomic managing is locked down. Additionally, allowing ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 3 Delivered

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation. Instana injects a 12 MB jar file in the /tmp folder if pods in the OCP cluster. If the pods do not have enough space, then the pods may be evicted. By checking if there is enough space be...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered

Ability to resize Azure App Service Plans

Our app service plan environment is extremely overprovisioned, similar to our Virtual Machines, disks, and databases because of the ease of resizing through azure portal. Some of these plans cost a significant amount of money, and they are seeing ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 5 Delivered

NOI Event Analytics - The Pattern filter is not automatically filled with configuration sql filter

System: Netcool Operations Insight - Event Analytics Actor: In Event Analytics user wants to edit the suggested pattern Description: When we go to edition page the previous SQL filter used on the Analytics configuration isn't replication on patter...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Recalculate smart alert baseline via API

We're managing multiple instana backends via API configuration. This works for many configuration items. However it doesn't work for Smart Alerts with a daily or weakly seasonality. Seasonality differs per system. While it is possible to recalcula...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Update log4j to 2.17.1 or newer version, and avoid of hardcode/embedded inside library

Best practice of programming is never embedded known library inside another library, but TADDM have a lot of binary containing other library, e.g. log4j. Please take a look of taddm-api-clients.jar, containing platform-logger.jar, log4j 1.x.jar. A...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

.NET support for AWS Lambda runtime

.NET is currently not supported in the AWS Lambda runtime for agent deployment. We are running a .NET Lambda application which requires tracing to be included in part of an Application perspective.
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered

Setting a TWS date parameter within Kubernates yaml file path on TWS script

We need to pass parameters to JCL during runtime, not only for a job, but for all jobs in general. Since the job is created directly by Kubernetes via the plug-in, the parameter given from JCL needs to be transferred to Job.yaml.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered