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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Topology, Runbooks and CNEA Databases in Hybrid DR setup should be replicated automatically

Currently Automatic Data Replication is only supported in Full Cloud statck Deployment of Event Manager in Watson AIOPS, but In Hybrid Implementation still requires manual effort to back and restore process to sync two Clusters. Since fundamentall...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Restricted read-only permissions for non-technical users of custom dashboards

As an Instana admin configuring access to non-technical users who use Instana only to view custom dashboards, I want to ensure that such users can only view specific custom dashboards and not be able to: Create new custom dashboards Duplicate exis...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

net-disco extension Scope.Special and management subnets

Dear IBM, provide options to configure management subnet by using scope.special
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Properties that display when the number of users will exceed the recommended maximum number of concurrent users in webgui

. Is there any restriction of user log in if it exceeds concurrent user access count?
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

The ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page so it propagates to all the graphs – like the limited default selections do now.

Ability to view data within a specific scope.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

The ability to download a list of group members and a 'download page' option so that all data is easily exportable

This will be useful for the client when needing to export data for other members in the organization to view.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic may not properly display costs when using a non USD currency

When a currency is changed from USD, costs may not be properly displayed in charts other than Top Accounts. For instance, the cost IS displayed properly for Yen, but NOT displayed properly for the Norwegian Krone
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Is a defect