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Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
20 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Include more Cloud Services for Sustainability Reporting

Hi, currently, IBM Turbonomic provides sustainability reporting based on virtual machines (VMs). However, since the customer utilizes a wide range of cloud services across different cloud platform, it would be beneficial to extend the Sustainabili...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Under review

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
20 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Display Account ID and Region Columns in Anomaly Detection List

Customer Feedback: Currently, the Anomaly Detection list only includes the account name. The customer requests that the Account ID be displayed in the list to make it easier to identify accounts when multiple payer accounts are registered. They fo...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
21 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
21 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Create count function

Have a metric function in order to pull count. Currently we can only gather information from metrics such as cost, usage, and sustainability. From count function, we would want to identify the number of accounts.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI We have a customer that use OCI and today and are migrating BPM platform from aix to OCI infrastructure.They use db2 and tsamp today.But we have problems to configure tsamp.
3 months ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Future consideration

Default Dashboard for DB2 Monitoring

🎯 Goal : Enable database administrators and operations teams to quickly assess the health and performance of DB2 environments without additional setup or custom dashboards. 📊 Suggested Dashboard Structure: Overview Total DB2 Hosts monitored Total ...
2 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration