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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Mttrpad snmp probe to keep track of trap sequence id (TS015874858)

Currently we have nco_p_mttrapd probe instances which are receiving SNMPV3 over udp alarms from our network components & other element management system. UDP packets as we all know will be least prioritized and chances are that it might be dro...
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Multiple Actions for GCP.

Hi friends. Today there is a limitation in IBM Turbonomic for any GCP actions that multiple actions belonging to the same VM cannot be executed simultaneously and we need to execute them one at a time. However, it is allowed by the Turbonomic UI r...
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Ability to setup role-based access to MWM filter comparators

We would like the capability to setup role-based access to MWM filter comparators (using AD groups) such that some users have the ability to use all the comparators (default) whereas some users only have the ability to use a subset of comparators.
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
19 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Azure Savings Plan commitment planning

I would like to have the ability to create plans for Azure Savings Plan commitments based on my current workloads not covered by reserved instances that are running hourly pay go rates.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Under review

"Entity Information" widget should be sorted alphabetically

This widget has grown a lot over the years and for some objects now runs off the screen. As it does not seem to be sorted alphabetically, it can be difficult to navigate and does not provide a good user experience
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Want to see if it might be possible to do "forcive"/"planning" sizing

Would like to see if there might be a way to force sizing actions when needed . Have several situations where we want to do **non-usage based sizing** what I call = "planning sizing" . Use cases are - where app owners have done load testing and kn...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Future consideration

Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
4 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release

Support for .Net from datadog

Ability to have application context for .Net applications
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Local User Activity, Password Policy Administration, & API Keys

Last Activity & Login Date: For local users, we'd like to be able to see the Last Used Activity and Last Login Date. Password Complexity Rules and Lifecycle Management: We need a mechanism to enforce our Company's password complexity rules, su...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Under review