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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 Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Add more options for "start" time for Release Markers API.

Using Cloud Pak for Integration, our CI/CD Pipeline uses ArgoCD and Argo Notifications. Argo Notifications does not support UNIX timestamp in milliseconds. Only seconds or microseconds. It would be very helpful if for example the Releases API coul...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Event handler email attachments

An Action to send an email should allow one or more file attachments.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Under Infrastructure the IBM ACE Message Flow view shows the Flow Nodes associated with the Messageflow and has a single Maximum Elapsed Time for each node; we would also like an Average Elapsed Time for each Flow node as well.

As stated above, displaying the Average Elapsed Time for each message flow node for the selected timeframe would provide a great deal of value when using Instana to track Message Flow performance. As a 2nd ask, and of lesser priority, would it als...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Allow calendars to use specified times along with dates.

We have Extended outage on specific dates though out the year. starting at 11:00 PM on Saturday and ending at 05:30 AM Sunday. Our extended outage calendar works but no jobs run for the whole day Saturday and Sunday. It would be great to have this...
almost 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana Support for z/VSE Operating System

This is a request for IBM to support running Instana the mainframe z/VSE operating system similar to the way it is currently supported on z/OS operating system (with Instana Gateway, CDP Streaming, spans, etc.). It would be useful to the many IBM ...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Citrix Hypervisor support to the main stream hypervisor support in Turbonomic

Citrix targets and support for its targets are not prime time at the moment in Turbonomic.
almost 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Cross-domain RCA is needed

One of three biggest telecom operator in Russia is in need of cross-domain RCA for their IBM Network Management IP system. Due to known limitation for number of elements in the ITNM domain, telecom operators have no other option, but to split netw...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Copy job logs

On a job creation (e.g. executable type), under environment tab we have , Standard input, Standard output, Standard error. This capabilities allows to provide a path to send the joblog. Allthough for job types like "SAP JOB ON DYNAMIC WORKSTATIONS...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 5 Future consideration

Enable SSL on Objectserver IDUC port

IDUC traffic is not secure. Currently Objectserver IDUC port listening parameter only give possibility to set port number, without SSL. It should be option the same as objectserver port (4101 SSL) for IDUC communcation
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration