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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 Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Enable Multi Resource Graphing to have the option of going over 100% so that vCPU which can peak to 150% or more can provide context for rightsizing.

It used to be that the multi-resource graph went above 100% but some customers didn't like that. So it was capped at 100%. This customer though sees big value in seeing when those peaks happen for proper context on rightsizing decisions and troubl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2

Graphical Representation of all Jobstreams in the WorkLoad Designer

We would like to have a graphic representation of all the Jobstreams present in the database. Currently, this representation is possible in the current plan but we do not have the equivalent on the Jobstreams present in the WorkLoad Designer
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
4 months ago in Instana / Python 0 Future consideration

Customizing the icon for DASH console Integrations

There should be a way to customize the icon which is assigned to Console Integrations in Dash.This RFE is a result of an open case with IBM support regarding the need to customize the icon for the IBM Runbook Automation console integration. See us...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Allow for successful VM Move actions when resource pool doesn't exist in destination cluster

When creating superclusters, Cluster A has a Resource Pool named ResourcePoolA and ClusterB has a Resource Pool only by the name of ResourcePoolB. Turbonomic will generate move actions from hosts in ClusterA to hosts in ClusterB, and those move ac...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Compare Cyber 5 data year over year.

Dicks Sporting Goods has an ask to be able to view our Cyber 5 data year over year for comparison. For everything in our org. Applications, Websites, Mobile apps. Due to high traffic over Cyber 5, there is a desire to get comparable stats from yea...
4 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

To be able to monitor Nginx and PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Active Directory Monitoring and Tracing

Application monitoring/tracing for Domain Controllers and Active Directory will improve our enterprise observability into a key application. By using Instana as the enterprise monitoring tool, we need all applications to be monitored/traced in a s...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Future consideration

"Non-Disruptive" and "Reversible" Filter

This is an idea for the filter when creating a group. The customer would like to create a group with the attributes of being Non-Disruptive and Reversible (or at least one of them) for the volume. However, it seems that currently, we cannot use th...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration