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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...
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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Global Smart Alert to have ability to filter by error message and endpoint name for adaptive threshold type.

Once we create global smart alerts for application perspective dashboard we have option to select filter (end point name or error message) for static threshold based alerts we are looking similar functionality for adaptive threshold based global S...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Use DNS lookup in SevOne-fix-hosts-file

The SevOne-fix-hosts-file script currently uses SSH to get the hostname of each server in the cluster. In a large cluster, this script can take 2-3 hours to complete. Changing from a repetitive SSH to a DNS lookup cuts down the time considerably.
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

embed the Turbonomic Supply Chain in some other application or browser

The ability to embed Turbonomic Supply Chain in a web page or other application without using APIs
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Ability to keep track of "Approve By" in compliance manager

The OUW in configuration manager is created based on the "Execution User" but we need also keep track on who approved the remedial. Now once you delete the items in the remedial queue you no longer know who approved
9 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Add support for discovery of Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches in TADDM

Issue that TADDM is not supporting discovery of Cisco 9000 switches was raised with TS012734132 case. CTJTD0871W No IP interface was found error is being reported during the discovery of those devices. No relationships to endpoints is being discov...
9 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Smart Parking for Pods

IBM Customers have Container Licenses measured by Virtual Processor Cores (VPCs). We would like Turbonomic to have the same Parking capabilities available for Virtual Machines in Public Clouds but for Pods running in Kubernetes and Openshift. So, ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Identify duplicate snapshots

Policy to identify duplicate backup snapshots
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling - Alert Suppression Request using web link or REST API call using programming and not just using Watson Maintenance windows

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling. In order of priority: Need an API for integrations Our Centralized Dashboard should have a way to set Maintenance Windows’s Users should be able to click a link in an incident ticket to disable/...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release