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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 Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

CNEA Grouping Guardrails

Customer needs ability to create "guard rails" by adding custom data from the event into the list of fields considered by analytics.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) I...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Create Driver for Cisco Wireless Link Controllers 5508

Please create managed SmartModels for:Vendor: CiscoType: Wireless Lan ControllerModel: 5508OS: 7.2.111.3 and 7.4.110.0
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Characters that Netcool cannot use

OS:AIX 7.1 TL5SP4SW:Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4 I am using nco_postmsg to send a message to ObjectServer.A part of the message was missing because there were metacharacters and quotation marks in the sent message.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Pre-deployment policy checks to verify that provisioning requests meet the standards/rules of the organization for infrastructure

Deployments must adhere to provisioning standards and stay within security "guard rails". These standards and guard rails are spelled out by means of a collection of rules that are applied to provisioning requests to determine if the requests are ...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Enabling Java Profiling for Applications running on Kubernetes

Currently, we only have Instana AutoProfile to support for Java applications which is running on EC2 instacnes. However we want similar feature for an application which is running on Kubernetes hosts as a conatiner application.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Functionality already exists

Bearer authentication for IWS

On the Manage Data sources, there is anew feature where allow multiple REST API to be consumed. Although only offers basic authentication.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Have actions visibility adjustable at user/group level

Option to turn on/off actions types for users . Would be a nice feature to have the ability to turn on/off action "types" for each users . Example = Might have a user/group (advisor) that we only want them to see sizing actions = (turn on) sizing ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Remedy AR 20.2 gateway

we need to integrate Omnibus 8.1 with remedy AR 20.2however the only available gateways is up to remedy version 9.1we need to have a gateway for remedy AR 20.2 to be able to do the integration.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration