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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.
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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Working hours also on Flow widget

Hi, we are in POC with HCL and they would like to have "working hours" setting also to work with flow widget. At the moment it works with "performance" widget but when we try to add flow widget to the report we cannot see working hours reflected i...
1 day ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / PHP 0 Submitted

Beeinstana Backup and Recovery

If the beeinstana volume fails or is for any other reason compromised it needs to be possible to use snapshots for beeinstana operator or some custom form of backup and recovery.Most other k8s operators are capable of passing a datasource part lik...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Allow encryption key to be supported in DI

During a DI integration with identity provider (IDP). Notice if the encryption key is enabled at IDP, DI will not be able to authenticate the user. If disable encryption, user can be authenticated. Passing Token without encryption is a security lo...
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective. Since Instana views active VMs differently in the application perspective not all VMs show up and then does not populate to Turbonomic. But in Instana Infrastruc...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Submitted

Need to be able to export Turbonomic data to 2 different locations

We have a need to export Turbonomic data to 2 different targets. We are currently exporting data to ThoughtSpot, and also need to be able to export data to our DataLake.
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
about 2 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Replication support for External MySQL DB -

Currently External MYSQL DB where the Turbo is installed doesnt support replication. though we are configuring the replication in MysQL , the sync is getting break every day once the file roll over happens.

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
1 day ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Variable handling - configurable per tab or global

Variable handling in DI is very limiting having variables that apply to all tabs in a report. Not only is it restrictive but can also be confusing with different variable types and data it applies to (especially with flow). It should be possible t...
1 day ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted