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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...
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...

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Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
21 days ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Add authenticator module support in Instana Synthetics

The authenticator module (https://www.npmjs.com/package/authenticator) will help scripted browser tests respond to 2FA with an automatically generated TOTP. This helps automate Web pages that implement and enforce 2FA.
29 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Planned for future release

MFT file transfers should report successful or failed

When a MFT file transfer has completed, the Instana dashboards does not report whether it was successful or failed; it is only reported 'Completed' by the coordination queue manager and the file transfer dashboards. However, when an event fires fo...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

add context help for Global Default Policy - especially Disable All Actions

Context help for Disable All Actions. Something like. "Turbonomic will stop generating any actions, Automated, Manual or Recommended. On-Prem Plans can still be run; Cloud Plans may produce faulty results."
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

There is a need for an Informix sensor

Starting to get more and more requests for monitoring of Informix.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add functionality to export data dashboard data(in CSV or other consumable format). This can be an export button which outputs a CSV for the Dashboard data.

Add functionality to export data dashboard data(in CSV or other consumable format). This can be an export button which outputs a CSV for the Dashboard data.Currently there is no functionality to do this in the UI.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Planned for future release

Sensor for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster 8.9.x

Need sensor tosupport for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster version 8.9.x
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Add feature that would allow the DWC to capture in a log the last time a user logged into the client.

Security audits are asking for information on when users last logged into the DWC.
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Populating SRC_TRANSPORT & DST_TRANSPORT Metadata for Versa

We have a situation that a Versa customer wants to create specific alert policies based on source tunnel type (transport) and destination tunnel type. Today, the solution only captures the tunnel type on the source side utilizing the object type. ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Planned for future release