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Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Search is not working correctly in eventviewer list with relationship view enabled

There are often scenarios where main events are linked to child events. These relationships can be effectively visualized using the Relationship View in the EventViewer. However, the search functionality does not work correctly when using this Rel...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

GCE Commitment Support for Additional Machine Types

G2, Nvidia L4, and Nvidia T4 are seemingly not yet supported. All machines types should be supported across both GCP Compute Engine CUDs and Flex CUDs.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to generate an air-gapped package from a desktop/laptop system

Many of our customers do not have a Linux server with internet access that can be used to generate the air-gapped package that is necessary for a Standard Edition installation. They have Linux servers, but there are firewalls that prevent access. ...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Allow for more than five metrics within a smart alert

Within version 1.323.853 smart alerts GA, the wizard only allows for five metrics. In our case, we had seven file systems that we wanted to alert upon, but had to create a second smart alert to contain the balance. In the preview version, we had a...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Add Resultant Set of Policies to Action Details

it would be awesome if we could get a true RSOP representation of Policies on the Action Details page! Rather than showing me a list of policies that I have to go digging through to find the ONE policy per aspect that comes out on top after reconc...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Expand functionality on /api/v3/data/topn endpoint to consider custom timespan like in NMS Web UI

The /api/v3/data/topn endpoint accepts a variety of parameters (aggregation unit, device filters, sorting, etc.), but it does not include a timespan selection. While the API response does include a label attribute (e.g., "Today") and a timeRanges ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists

Crash reporting in react-native

The mobile application developers can use the crash analysis feature in Instana to detect, understand, and fix the application crash as soon as possible. Today, Instana doesnt have enabled crash reporting in react-native and customers who have ena...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 5 Not under consideration