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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 Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

A new field for occurences with the original ADID

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avoid this issue some woradounds are needed and already supported by PIF. PIF (e.g. WAPL) can create an alias occurence ids. However, the o...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Extending the accuracy of the input arrival date time

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avaid complicated workarounds, the input arrival date time needs a better accuracy - at least to seconds. By increasiny the accuracy of the...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

EQQSERVER avoid 878 abend by limiting connections

The EQQSERVER uses memory under 16 MB. If many jobs use the EQQSERVER, we get an S878. To avoid downtime, the number of concurrent connections must be limited. The server task should reject or queue new incoming connections (e.g. a FIFO queue). To...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 4 Future consideration

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Get metrics from Instana to use in Argo Rollouts

As is known, Argo is currently the top opensource tool to make deployments. Argo Rollouts extends the capability of ArgoCD and provided features as blue/green deployment or canary deployments. As you might know Canary deployments work in the follo...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Enhance CP4AIOps to get topology data from Meraki devices

Meraki's marketshare has exploded in serving large enterprises with cloud-managed networking in the last 5 years. Meraki now accounts for 10-20% of Cisco's switching business revenue and it is considered a leader in Gartner's 2022 Magic Quadrant f...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Add support for multiple billing accounts per cloud provider

We are trying to add 2 AWS master billing accounts to Turbo and found out that Turbo does not support that configuration. We are also trying to add 2 Azure EA's and that is not supported either. We need Turbo to support multiple billing accounts p...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Planned for future release

Server and Agent SSL certificate management through the DWC

SSL certificates have always been an important requirement for IWS/IWA. This continues to increase as organisations move toward public cloud infrastructure. This is especially true of cloud kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS & GKS. Most cust...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration