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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 Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Ability to custom process name

All our process are named "java", notifications and event regarding the process (like "abnormal termination") are all refereeing to "java process"; I would like to have the possibility to custom it like we do for services.
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Support Spectrum v10.5(21.2.1) in nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba probe [Case number: TS006479579]

More details available at [Case number: TS006479579] Hi, We Citigroup are using Broadcom spectrum product to monitor Network and want to forward the alerts event to Netcool Corba probe if any issue. Currently IBM Netcool nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba pr...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Functionality already exists

Automation within Huawei's Fusionsphere

Resource optimization for VMs working in Huawei's fusionsphere
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Configure ACE Sensor to authenticate through LDAP

ACE RestAdminApi is configured to be accessed with LDAP authentication. While Instana is asking for local user. We need to be able to configure instana agent to access ACE using LDAP
8 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Prompt to Confirm UI Delete Function

In The UI, when the user chooses to delete a reservation or a target, we would like an "Are You Sure" type of prompt to confirm that the Delete is truly purposeful and not something accidental. This feature will help save time and aggravation when...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Allow ABEND of FAILED jobs in USERJOBS to be marked as SUCC or CANCELED

Starting 9.4 when a JOB gets put into USRJOBS Operations cannot cancel or mark is as SUCC when it fails. Hence in every console it shows up as an issue even after the issue is resolved. This can make the automated or manual management of batch dif...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow to change Instana backend port from 443 to non-standard

Our customer is asking possibility to change default port of their K8s Instana backend. They use Instana behind loadbalancer. We found that if we stop Instana operator and specify the port manually at "gateway" config map: location / { return 301...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

OOB functionalities oriented to telecommunications companies

The event management solution, NOI has and is used by many companies in the telecommunications sector and we are promoting Cloud Pak for watson AIOPs as the evolution of traditional management, I believe it would be of greater impact if we had OOB...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Support recent versions of MongoDB Java Driver

We are using a Mongo enterprise 4.2.24 cluster and configured the mongo driver in our java applications. With a very old driver version like 2.4.0, we can see mongodb traces in our API calls. But with the latest 4.x driver version (we have 4.7.0 a...
8 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration