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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 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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PUT-API for Tags

Right now you can create Tags with the Post API. But it fails if there is already an existing Tag. But there is no PUT API to change a tag and update tags. The only way is to delete all tags and create them again. It would be very useful if there ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Under review

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Needs more information

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Required DSA/API for RESTConf Integration with Netcool IMPACT

Most of the RESTAPi platform in market are providing services using RESTConf and given the market progression, soon existing RESTApi will be migrated to RESTConf. (Eg: NSP a Nokia product, holds RESTAPI interface for OSS platform, but all RESTAPI ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

HA proxy routes with SPK ingress needs to be configured - Need enhancement from product

Platform configures OpenShift Routes which is prohibited in Customer environment (RedHat recommendation). HA proxy routes with SPK ingress needs to be configured - Need enhancement from product
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Dual stack support should be available for AIOPS 4.4.1

Dual stack support should be supported for AIOPS 4.4.1
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review