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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 on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Filter Kubernetes namespaces

In some cases, customers want to install IBM Instana host agent on K8s workers nodes from K8s cluster managed by third party and used by several clients (shared resources). If worker nodes are dedicated for a customer, it could be great to be able...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Provide sample gitops process for Instana synthetics

Instana Synthetics is nodejs code so teams/users should keep it in a github repo for version control, security, compliance, tracking issues for changes etc The gap is automating deploying that code into an Instana account. By providing a sample gi...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard

Can you add the definition of the different levels of thresholds to the widgets. In example , three levels (green, yellow and red) which will change the color relative of the passing thresholds. Chart Time Series, Big Number.
6 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities similar to the legacy HTTP Transport. # retryLimit - The number of time for http client to retry connection if previously failed. # retryLimit = 2 # # retryWait - The amount of time...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information

Ability to see trough API the history of removed peers & HSA

Request is ability to see the information through API of HSA and Peers that were removed successfully previously. And in case of re-adding a repaved host, erase that information.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to remove and then re-add a virtual appliance to an NMS cluster without re-imaging

Request is ability to remove and then re-add a virtual appliance to an NMS cluster without re-imaging to we do not loose server capacity when testing, since it is a painful process for us to get this.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Request for a cluster management API endpoint to give visibility of the data replication status when adding an HSA.

Request is to provide an API endpoint that provides data replication status during REPAVE process when adding an HSA, so we can automate procedure and comply with company DC requirements.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Provide improved options for searching LDAP groups when configuring LDAP based access.

Provide improved options for searching LDAP groups when configuring LDAP based access. Today group filter is using “*<string provided>*” as the group name filter. Given the scale of our AD environment this takes too long to respond or return...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Planned for future release

Technologies Reporting metrics

Technologies Reporting metrics like min, max and average on what bases they are pulling and if we want to see total data flowing to Instana backend per day which value we should consider (min, max or average) should we sum it? As mentioned in the...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration