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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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

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Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Run FlightRadar and Instana Agent together

Unfortunately it is not possible to run FlightRadar and Instana together. This has been confirmed with our Engineering Team.Need a supported way to solve this issue , we already know about the incompatible agent workaround. To resolve the issue, r...
2 months ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Needs more information

Housekeep metric and traces data

Provide a way to automatically house keep old metric and trace data if storage is reaching certain threshold or way to manually delete the data. It's better to have a method to export the data first and delete it. In the future if needed after exp...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Future consideration

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper EX Devices with OS version 22.*,23.*

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper EX Devices with OS version 22.*,23.* From the security standpoint Juniper has recommended to move to newer versions of JunOS e.g. 22.* and 23.* and with the older versions h...
2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 21.*,22.*,23.*

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 21.*,22.*,23.* From the security standpoint Juniper has recommended to move to newer versions of JunOS e.g. 22.* and 23.* and with the older vers...
2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper EX Devices with OS version 20.*,21.*,22.*,23.* [NETCONF]

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper EX Devices with OS version 20.*,21.*,22.*,23.* The driver(s) need to be able to support the management of NEs which have NETCONF enabled" 1. With automation tools coming int...
2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 20.*,21.*,22.*,23.* [NETCONF]

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 20.*,21.*,22.*,23.* The driver(s) need to be able to support the management of NEs which have NETCONF enabled" 1. With automation tools coming in...
2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host they are running on.

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host which each VM is running on. One way to do this is to add the host name column on the "List of Virtual Machines" tab view. It would be nice i...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration