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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...
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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Add the ability to click out of an "x-able" box by clicking in a greyed out part of the window

It'd be nice ux for you to be able to click in any of the grey areas and it'll close out the window you had open. the x still exists as another option to click out of a config window. if there are changes when a user clicks out of the window, then...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana. Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus EIF SDK should support Windows Server 2022.

We plan to use Log File Agent & Netcool EIF SDK(posteifmsg) under Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition in Oct/2022. Log File Agent is supported now, but EIF SDK is not yet supported now. Please support EIF SDK for Windows Server 2022. ______...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 4 Planned for future release

Enrichment of the synthetic alerts (parents) with flags of the grouped alerts (children)

In the NOI version (1.6.4), the synthetic alerts (parents) are displayed WITHOUT (correlation) flags in the alerts views. This is very confusing, especially when the alerts are sorted. It would be useful to enrich the synthetic alerts (parents) wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow for managing VM-to-VM anti/affinity rules directly in Turbonomic

As a user I would like the ability to create/modify/delete VM-to-VM affinity/anti-affinity placement policies, so that I do not have to create/modify/delete these rules in vCenter.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Policies 3 Future consideration