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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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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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ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7750 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7750 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to unavailability of ITNCM drivers
9 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7450 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7450 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to unavailability of ITNCM drivers
9 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

ITNCM Driver for Alcatel Switch 7210 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7210 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to inavailablity of ITNCM drivers
9 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

The ability to configure a schedule in our policy CR

For resizing operations (vertical scaling) our users are going to want to control when automatic actions are applied. Via the UI I do see an option to create a policy schedule.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Ability to globalize endpoint mapping

The default rule for determining http endpoints: "Use the first url segment" is insufficient for us in many areas. There are two ways to override this: 1. Creation of a large number of additional rules with endpoint definitions in the Instana conf...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

add floating border in UI

When viewing a call in Analyzing > Call, lets say a DB call lots of data regarding the query will not fit the right hand window. I know that you can hit the "Copy" button or use the slider in that frame but I want to do a screenshot with both C...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

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