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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...
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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Ability to pass details on service name in title when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service name when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name. Please Note: We are aware that the name of affected service is passed in payload but the ask i...
28 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Azure pacemaker not compatible or supported by IBM for Workload Automation.

We have the IWS masters and Agents(SAP) on Azure cloud. As we are using IBM DB2 for master as primary database, DBA team uses IBM pacemaker for the high availability and redundancy. But on the SAP clients, SAP team uses Azure Pacemaker for the hig...
28 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Capability to forecast on metrics

Provide ability to forecast the outcome of any metric, including custom metrics, based on any context forecasts context (tag/label/etc.) and scale dynamically with infrastructure and applications. Similar capability to what competitors have: Datad...
28 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Re : Data Ingestion into SevOne Platform via TNC-P Telco Technology Packs

With TNC-P domain knowledge and base pack for various vendor such as Huawei, Nokia and ZTE. Technology Packs already cover most of the network domain such as GPON, LTE as well as Mobile Core will make it easier and faster to customize instead of b...
29 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

ALLOW ServiceNow API to allow connection to IWS plugin using a Proxy

TS013706895 I’m currently working on IWS 95.06 to ServiceNow integration using the ServiceNow Plugin. using DWC The ServiceNow instance we use at our site is in the Cloud . We therefore are required to go through the YBS proxy server to connect to...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Implement capacity adjustability for active-active consistent resize groups

If we have a group of 2 active-active vms that are running at 80% capacity and one fails over all traffic to the other, we would exceed utilization capacity. We need to be able to configure this capacity limit for scaling purposes in these scenari...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Under review

Need secure communications from the Instana Agent/Sensor to the IBM i server

Currently, all communications from the Instana Agent/sensor to the IBM i system are insecure. The customer needs to have SSL communications to ensure that traffic is secure.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Add field "IP Address" in comparison table

If there is a field displaying the IP address, it will be more convenient to identify the host. It's best to provide users with a way to customize the table using the provided field selection.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Host sensor needs to be able to monitor NIC status

Customers need to understand the status of their NICs to ensure that their networking is functioning properly. Currently, the Instana Host Agent only collects the performance metrics of the NICs and not the satus.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Under review

Add capability to raise events for current resource usage by pod

Our customer monitors applications running in Kubernetes environment. The application may consume more resources than requests. When it reaches the limit OCP is restarting the pod, that causes service delay. They want to monitor when the resource ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review