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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

No tags for empty vm specs

When we export App service plan Delete actions, We noticed that tags not appear, they're not there and would love to see them included. They only appear to be missing in Delete actions for VM spec.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Historical Dashborad for incidentes and alerts is requiered

A standard task in IT Operations teams is to report and analyze incidents monthly to create improvement plans, tracking and to get statistical analysis. Is requiered to have the ability to create dashboard containing all the incidents and alerts i...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
22 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
22 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
22 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
22 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

the process to update the SSL certificate needs to be better supported by the documentation

Customers (not just this one) have spent HOURS in VI editing the yaml file trying to get the cert to work. This will reduce customer frustration and improve the feeling towards our product. The current documentation (which is very good ) is here -...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration