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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 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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Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Support for .Net from datadog

Ability to have application context for .Net applications
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Integration with Oracle EBS for Logs, metrics, and traces

Toshiba Ops team need visibility to Oracle EBS which will allow for RCA
about 2 months ago in IBM AIOps Insights 0 Submitted

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
20 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

On-Prem Deployment using AWS IAM User assume role for all accounts

Instead of creating, managing, and configuring hundreds of IAM users for large AWS organization footprints, allow the use of a single iam user access key and secret and then a role to assume in order to collect the other account details. Either pa...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

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...
21 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Submitted

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
26 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted