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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 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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Add customizable columns to the event page

It would be nice to have customizable columns on the events list.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Enabling Java 2 security should not break the application

Based on Visa Security policies we have to enable Java 2 security. However, enabling Java 2 security will break the JazzSM/WebGUI application. All the icons will go missing after logging into WebGUI. IBM has provided a workaround to add the below ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 7 Planned for future release

Consider disabling file serving and directory browsing (fileServingEnabled & com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing)

According to Visa Security policies fileServingEnabled property should be disabled on all the /WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi' file(s). This property is managed by global property which is com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing. If this is set tr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Functionality already exists

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Policy storage without server name

Please provide an option to allow for storage of $IMPACT_HOME/policy/*.ipl without the server name being forced into the policy name. This will allow for simplified storage of common policies shared amongst clusters or multiple clusters within ver...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Launching configuration from the TEPS JWS client using Open Webstart

In case of Open Webstart possibility you should be able to configure and open all the option that ITM TEPS console has.
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration