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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 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...

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Add functionality to retrieve the Instana agent configuration file content in the Instana Agent UI

When troubleshooting Instana agent configurations then it is necessary to have SSH access to the host or Kubernetes cluster. If the UI had this feature then I could get the configuration file with a click of a button which would speeds up troubles...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Subnet flows in bulk

In menu Administrator > Flow configuration > Network Segment Manager This feature can add subnet one by one but the customer has more than 10K subnet, It very hard to add these one by one So I need to NMS can add/edit/delete also can multipl...
10 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Functionality already exists

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists

Node state shows as “Active” in Turbonomic Console even when a Node is marked as “unschedulable” in OpenShift

When draining a NODE OpenShift Kubernetes, and un-schedulable in OpenShift, Turbonomic console shows the node as "Active". There is no way to know if a NODE is un-schedulable or cordoned. Similar to VCenter where a Host is in maintenance mode it s...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Functionality already exists

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Getting Monitoring Issues via Instana API

The customer can get event types such as incident, issue, change using Instana API, but they cannot get monitoring issues which are very important for them. Due to these monitoring issues, the monitoring done by Instana on technologies in producti...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

Add profiling information to Traces/Spans

Some other vendors like Datadog include profiling information (e.g. CPU hotspots, CPU lock contention, ...) to the Traces/Spans.This is very valuable information in case of troubleshooting.Are there any plans to support such a feature in the near ...
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Will it be helpful if can create instana filter based on OrgID , eventid etc to get TPS for merchant specific

Get the event transaction detail per second for merchant wise
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

The ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page so it propagates to all the graphs – like the limited default selections do now.

Ability to view data within a specific scope.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists