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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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Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support auto scaling/increment of AIOPs component's PVC claim when current claim is 80% or more of current capacity of PVC storage and automatic End user notification about AIOPs health

We have observed one issue - the Netcool connector stopped processing new Events from ObjectServers. We founded out that pvc netcool-vct-netcool-conn- pvc was full, we extended it to 100mb from original 50mB. This has resolved the issue temporally...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Grouping row in the alert list to support summarising custom view columns

Currently in latest AIOPs 4.5 version , we can added mapping for new custom field/s ( SiteId in our case ) in Netcool connector and and can add same in AIOPs alert view but like Resource , EntityTYpe , Sender column values for parent alert where W...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Support of DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9

We need to install DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9, as per contractual obligations with our customer and because this version introduces some security fixes. TADDM version 7.3.0.11 is currently supporting DB2 v11.5.8; can you please evaluate to certify this ...

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration