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Missing self monitoring from documentation for every release

As we are self hosting our instana backend we need to know what metrics etc we need to look for to make sure the instana backend is running correctly. As of now we have to guess what metric we have to check.
29 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Add features suitable for multi-tenant usage. Ex) Creating templates for user groups

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Add features suitable for multi-tenant usage. Ex) Creating templates for user groups Question by IBM team.------------------------- Please provide examples and desired outcome. I want to...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners. Question by IBM team.------------------------- Valid RBAC request. Have you seen our new SaaS reporting option? This is...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM The subject of the development request concerns the detection of loops on the current plan of IWS MDM Linux in the Forcast process and the blocking of the calculation of the curr...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Supergroup parent should Inherit of Journals from merger groups' parent event

Currently, when a supergroup is created, it doesn't have journal from the merged group's parent events. Lots of customers populate custom fields of parent events based on probable cause or first event in the groups. In absence of complete informat...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

I wanted to get access to two or more turbonomic roles with different access scope to be used at the same time with different roles.

I wanted to get access to two or more turbonomic roles with different access scope to be used at the same time. Our setup uses external authentication provider to get access to turbo SaaS application. For example, i have observer role configured w...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Not under consideration