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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 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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SmartModel driver for Cisco IE-3300 for OS 17.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
13 days ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Under review

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
13 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Oracle DB - Instance status and Listener Status

I didn't find any parameters to set these alerts for Oracle. Below are the statuses required. These are very key and basic for creating alerts on Oracle DB. · ASM Disk Space Alerts [WARNING], [CRITICAL]· Database Instance Status [UP],[DOWN]· Datab...
13 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Add business metrics to Instana traces for IIB and ACE

The current implementation of both IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE) could emit business metrics through monitoring events which are published through MQ topics. A similar implementation with the connection through OpenTel...
14 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Under review

[Copy] WebGUI - Warning message on executing right click tools for AIOps

Requirement:On executing right click tool in WebGui for multiple alerts a warning message should be displayed. Right click tools configuration should have the capability where we can define some kind of threshold on number of alerts selected and d...
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Remove Android Character Limit

I would like to request that the android-agent in the CustomEvent file be updated to remove the 1024-character limit on logs. This is because the current limit is causing logs to be truncated from Android devices, whereas they are not from iOS dev...
15 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
18 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Support for getting Logs through API

In Instana we are able to get all data from the API but the logs. We need to expose an API to extract logs. This would also help to extend retention of logs outside Instana.
22 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Under review

Add the switch in operator for kafka topics auto-partitioning

In recent versions, Instana Operator has added a new processing function: automatically configure the number of partitions for kafka topics, this is a good enhancement, but we have encountered some problems in the actual deployment process of cust...
27 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Self-managed Instana backend support Tencent cloud managed Kafka service as the datastore.

A large number of customers run their workloads on the public cloud platform. At the same time, many of our customers in GCG region will use the resources provided by Tencent Cloud to build their management platforms, such as self-managed Instana ...
27 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review