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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Integrate IBM Workload Automation SaaS with Omnibus

Need to raise a RFE with product team to Integrate IBM Workload Automation SaaS with Omnibus. It is integrating Netcool Omnibus with IWA Dynamic Agent.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Exclude Citrix provision VMs from Citrix cloud in Azure resource group from the Turbonomic licensing

Azure VDI VMs do not count towards the Turbonomic license since 8.5.2 but Citrix provision VMs from Citrix Cloud in Azure resource group has calculated as of now. So Azure resource group which manages Citrix VDIs should not be counting in Turbonomic
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Planned for future release

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Improve adding groups to "Volumes" and "Database" policies

Currently, when changing the scope of a policy, the new scope overrides the old scope once saved. This only occurs for database policies and volume policies, not virtual machine policies. For example, if i have a policy and the scope is for group ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Make Message Bus Probe HTTP Responses more visible in Probe Logs

If the Message Bus Probe receives too large payloads, the sender will get back the HTTP status code "413 Payload Too Large". This is correct, but in the Probes logfiles this is only documented with a warning line "payload to large".
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Nokia Netact SNMP integration - Snmpset operation to set 2 OID's at single execution

Nokia are removing support for their CORBA interface making SNMP interface the only supported solution . As SNMP comes up with risk to lose traps due to packet loss, between the EMS and the probe server, nokia netact comes up with the solution to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

WebGUI event viewer selected event export as CSV tool option

The event viewer allows copy+paste of events but these have no separator. We need a tool to export selected events in the event viewer to a CSV/XLS file for use with a spreadsheet. This allows users to discuss and share event details easier, for t...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities similar to the legacy HTTP Transport. # retryLimit - The number of time for http client to retry connection if previously failed. # retryLimit = 2 # # retryWait - The amount of time...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information