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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
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.

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Add the ability for the optional use of Key Based Authentication

We have a business use case around key based authentication. We have a group that would like to provide data for Power VM probe but are having issues with AD base authentication as they use key based for the rest of there processes. We would like ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Official support for OCVS(Oracle Cloud VMware Solution)

Now, we are doing PoV for OCVS (Oracle Cloud VMware Solution) in Toyota Systems,The configuration is exactly the same as IBM Cloud Baremetal(VMware), VMware Cloud on AWS, and Turbonomic can visualize supply chain and do resource optimization, incl...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Needs more information

Depict AWS Savings Plan Data for EC2

We need Turbonomic to account for existing EC2 Savings Plans when making recommendations to ensure maximum utilization of these Savings Plans.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ITNM Configuration Utility - Extend Database Finder to have GUI configuration

Please extend the Database Finder to have a GUI based configuration so that it's easier to define custom databases, columns and attributes to enable data retrieval as a feed to Discovery.
30 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Exact Topology Template must allow deselecting neighbourong nodes

In the exact topology templates while choosing the neighbouring nodes it is vital to allow updating the neighbouring vertex by removing some the already choosen vertex as neighbours. At the moment, topology vertex can only be added and once they a...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
16 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
16 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted