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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 Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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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

Adaptive Threshold for Erroneous Calls - Global Smart Alerts

Currently in Global Smart Alerts, adaptive threshold option is there for Slow calls, HTTP Status Codes and throughput. Whereas, for erroneous calls only static threshold is available. Static threshold will not account for the daily erroneous call ...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 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

Search for objects that use another object

In our old workload automation software, Automic, the GUI provided a function called "Search for Use." This would allow you to select an object, for example a Run Cycle Group, and list all of the other objects (Job Stream) that reference that Run ...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for database replication on on premises deploy (MySQL)

In this case we are using the OVA deployment connected to externa DB (MySQL) and the idea is to have the database in cluster mode using group replication to have a better availability of the environment.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Extend thread dump with viable thread details

The Instana thread dump does not contain the following meta information of a thread: Priority (prio): the priority of the threadJava ID (tid): the unique ID given by the JVMNative ID (nid): the unique ID given by the OS Please add these details as...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
about 2 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
27 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
27 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Documentation around Openshift Operator management

Current Documentation does not cover managment of Subscriptions Install Plans Managing upgrades via Subscriptions and Managing the Operator deployment eg offline repo extra config eg CPU limits or custom build of operator to support hardend build.
27 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Under review