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Add the ability to use external-secrets to the config for self-hosted POP

We do not want to put our Instana key in github and would like to be able to use external-secrets similar to how we do with the instana-agent.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

AWS Tags not getting captured for Servers where IMSDV2 was enabled..

We have configured Disk Space events on few servers to alert on Disk Space utilization, but the alerts not triggered though the Disk Space threshold exceeded the limit. When verified we noticed that tags are missing for respective servers, and we ...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Deployment support publicly for upstream (OSS) K8s environment

We understand that previously (before TOB), we supported the Multi Node Turbonomic deployment option for large scale environments to upstream (OSS) K8s environments. Procedure published the following. https://github.com/turbonomic/t8c-install/wiki...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Delivered

RunBook Automation - SSH Encryption Method - Ed25519

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it is much more secure than SSH-RSA Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase security when using SSH with the product. How should it...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

to extract from Azure the fact that a disk is an OS disk or a data disk without needing to rely on a naming standard

this will make it easier to associate different policies associated to the different disk types
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team, We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please: We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not I have researched the options provided out of the box by Inst...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered

License consumption split on Windows, Linux, DBs, etc in Turbonomic

It is good to know how many licenses we are spending on each category and will have better understanding of profitable utilization on them
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 4 Delivered

support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered

Extra function for auto approve storage "Move volume" actions

we would like to make more use of “auto approve” our storage moves actions But ideally we would like the actions to prioritise certain smaller VMs first and also only move larger VM’s between certain times. An initial thought would be to create a ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered