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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...
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Put all actions together, regardless of whether they are complete or not

If there are some actions that you're trying to monitor within one change window and some take longer than others, or some don't trigger until a later time, or whatever other reason there might be, you will be in a place where your actions and exe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Not under consideration

Please support AWS Managed Grafana Datasource

We would like to create a feature Request for support of AWS Managed Grafana: https://aws.amazon.com/de/grafana/ A list of supported datasources you can find here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/grafana/latest/userguide/AMG-data-sources-builtin.html ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

WebLogic GridLink DataSources Monitoring

Customer is having many WebLogic instances in production environment configured with GridLink Datasources. This feature is required to monitor using Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Recommend expand disk/volume in Cloud.

In Cloud environment. If I find that the disk is almost full, will Turbo automatically recommend to expand the volume size for fixing disk full? In document, I found some recommendation on IOPs, Throughput and unattached volume deletion. So, It's ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Support for Nutanix AHV/Prism Central tags

Customer has requested tag support for Nutanix AHV / Prism. Customer noted that tags are only available on Prism Central and not Prism Element. We are currently discovering Nutanix via adding each Element as a Turbo target. It is unclear if Turbon...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Improve Group and Policy Setup UX for Common Use Cases

Improve the policy setup UX for common use cases such as one-time host and/or storage migrations. Ideas mentioned by the customer included an option to auto-create the groups and policies required to execute a plan in production, and/or using a wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Set Action Concurrency per Policy

Customer is using Turbo to migrate VMs from one storage cluster to another. They want to set action concurrency via the UI for the automation policy without impacting the global concurrency settings. For their use case, they wanted to always see 5...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to freeze generated actions for a specific group

I would like the ability to freeze the generated actions for a specific group so that when we notify resources owners of the action a week prior, we take that specific action or none at all on their resource. For example: We sent out notifications...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 2 Not under consideration

Allow Account Administrator to delete any user created dashboards

As an account administrator, I am able to create and share dashboards to all users. Any user with the "workload optimizer observer" role is also able to create and share dashboards to all users. Occasionally, new users within turbo (IWO) create da...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Show all database traces even if they all succeed

We opened a case for missing database calls and learned how Instana works for successful calls. The engineering team sent us the following quote, "Span batching in general doesn't consider the payloads. The rules are based on span metadata like d...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists