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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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Infra metrics for IBM DB2warehouse monitoring

We have integrated IBM DB2warehouse production instance with instana and we are able to access the default dashboard with some metrics. We are exploring the available metrics to configure alerts, but unfortunately we don't see the required metrics...
23 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Support of DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9

We need to install DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9, as per contractual obligations with our customer and because this version introduces some security fixes. TADDM version 7.3.0.11 is currently supporting DB2 v11.5.8; can you please evaluate to certify this ...

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

ADD HISTORICAL TAB IN GLOBAL SDWAN HEALTH SUMMARY REPORT -> PPM ALERTS HISTORY

VERIZON is currently rolling out a new service called SD-WAN Threshold-PPM (Proactive Performance Monitoring). While working with the beta customers ST MICRO and FIDELITY TIER 0 we saw the requirement for a tab that shows us historical PPM data. I...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Create custom Dashboards / Panels with Sythetic results data

Teams want to see the status of single or multiple synthetic checks in custom dashboards for better overview.
24 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Synthetic Secret Management

For Scripted Tests, there is a need for API Keys. These keys are secrets and need a limited visibility scope
24 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Monitor files into S3 bucket

We would like to have a way to monitor files into S3 bucket.As same as we use a normal file dependency, client has a need to monitor files into S3 bucket prior triggering a job/job stream.We see cloud as the future statement and would like to have...
24 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...