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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 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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Add support for vSAN Witness host

Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched...
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

The UI needs to handle failed Administrative Data Tasks.

It is quite common for an administrative task that leverages Kafka to timeout and fail. Leaving the task in a hung up condition. The present procedure to clear these issues is running 2 or 3 calls to swagger to clear the condition. These calls are...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Discover Azure Storage Account Soft Delete Capacities

Discovery Azure Storage accounts and their respective soft delete capacities. Based on the soft deleted capacities calculate size of soft deleted blobs providing the ability to save consumption costs for Azure Storage that is not easily visible to...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

EUM Crash Reporting - Limit or disable sending crash report

We have currently roughly 10 M app user and want to use crash reporting funtionality.In this cause we are looking for a way to limit or deact end-user to send crash reporting e.g. by config, to limit overload of network and protect instana backend...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Under review

Hot-Plugging Memory and CPUs on Virtual Machines (AHV)

Currently a reboot is required on virtual machines running on AHV to hot add resources. Nutanix allows hot add capabilities for CPU and Memory without a reboot natively. Turbonomic should be able to leverage the API and do the same without requiri...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Implement Custom Roles & RBAC Control via Entity/Tag

This would benefit all users of Turbonomic by allowing administrators to define custom roles, as well as the permissions applied to these roles either globally or by entity/tag and their respective child objects. This would enable application owne...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Future consideration

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Need API call to run the already configured NFVD load jobs

Its needed by the client to perform LCM takeover during regression testing
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted