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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 Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Servicenow-Observer to provide ability to discover relationships tables separately from resource discovery

At present when discovering resources from servicenow we specify the tables to collect data from and have to be explicit with the parent and child classes because whilst resources can be discovered from the parent class and it traverses the childr...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

New filter - Savings/Investments less or more than xxx

It would be helpful insert a new filter in Turbonomic actions UI to find savings or investments in a specific range or less/more than a specific value.
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, able to see Splunk applications through the Instana Portal.

We want monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application in the Instana application perspective. As per the IBM support, there is no support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, you will not be able to see any Splunk hosts or ...
14 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Ability to Monitor Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway

Currently Instana cannot monitor Layer7
14 days ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

we want to be able specify for Turbonomic to make recommendations on certain workloads based on more than a months data

we want to be able specify for Turbonomic to make recommendations on certain workloads based on more than a months data ie 2 months + so we can have more consistent lower usage from resources versus capacity
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Field Integrations 0 Submitted

Infra metrics for IBM DB2warehouse monitoring

We have integrated IBM DB2warehouse production instance with instana and we are able to access the default dashboard with some metrics. We are exploring the available metrics to configure alerts, but unfortunately we don't see the required metrics...
15 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted