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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 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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Business require synthetic test to run during business hours

I have a business unit who require a synthetic test to run during the work week between 08:00 and 17:00. At present you can only specify how offen the test should run specification .
7 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

multi-tenency and multi-chatops channel support for Cloud Pak for AIOps

We have been discussing these topics with the WW AIOps team for some time now. Based on what I've heard, multi-tenancy and multi-ChatOps channel functionalities are part of the product backlog but do not have a specific timeline yet. As the client...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

A more robust Impact cluster failover is needed as the current heartbeat to nameserver primary is not sufficient

Currently, if the Primary Impact server is "crippled", meaning it is still up but is no longer able to process work, it can respond to heartbeat ping requests from the cluster members, causing the cluster members to think they do not need to assum...
14 days ago in IBM AIOps Insights 1 Submitted

Get Turbonomic Recommendations for AWS Lambda

As customers advance in cloud usage, there's a shift towards server-less setups for both services and apps. Picking the correct Lambda setting based on needs is tricky, with each choice having its cost implications. It would me more useful if Turb...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Submitted

Requesting Saving Plans Support for AWS

As per the discussions we had with the IBM Turbonomic support team, currently Turbonomic is not capable of identifying the Savings Plans for EC2 instance recommendations in AWS. Therefore, the cost saving it show for the virtual machine scaling ac...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Dynamically SNMP Credentials change acceptance

Enhancement request in processing dynamically SNMP Credentials change(made to SnmpStackSecurityInfo.cfg via CLI/GUI) by ITNM and minimize downtime of Monitoring via Poller processes. Keeping, new security policies in mind, would required this func...
8 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Under review

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
15 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration