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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 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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Add capability to run Instana back-end on a multi-architecture cluster (IBM Power and x86)

Add the ability to host Instana on a multi-architecture cluster independent of the backend placement, x86 or Power.
10 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

The ability to integrate or move files to the secure cloud content management - Box, inc.

Our company uses Box as one of the primary ways to share files. In an effort to help automate report distribution to some of these customers, it would be nice to be able to use IWS to move files to Box. Since we already connect to the necessary se...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Instana Agents Installation on FIPS Enabled Hosts

Instana agent installation fails on hosts that have FiPS enabled. The only way that we found to install on these hosts is manually using the following command: sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest --nofiledigest Since this command is bypassing a security meas...
30 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
10 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Submitted

Mttrpad snmp probe to keep track of trap sequence id (TS015874858)

Currently we have nco_p_mttrapd probe instances which are receiving SNMPV3 over udp alarms from our network components & other element management system. UDP packets as we all know will be least prioritized and chances are that it might be dro...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Multiple Actions for GCP.

Hi friends. Today there is a limitation in IBM Turbonomic for any GCP actions that multiple actions belonging to the same VM cannot be executed simultaneously and we need to execute them one at a time. However, it is allowed by the Turbonomic UI r...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Ability to setup role-based access to MWM filter comparators

We would like the capability to setup role-based access to MWM filter comparators (using AD groups) such that some users have the ability to use all the comparators (default) whereas some users only have the ability to use a subset of comparators.
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
11 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Submitted

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted