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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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Filtering on tickets within ServiceNow integration in CP4AIOps

When defining a ServiceNow integration in CP4AIOps, in the connection form it's possible to select the ticket type (incident, change request, ...), but it's not possible to further filter the ticket of same type (for example based on specific fiel...
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

gRPC Support for Synthetic Endpoint Tests

As a customer, I want to use Instana Synthetic Test to monitor the availability for my gRPC Endpoints.
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Synthetics Tests granularity below 1 minute

As a customer, I want to ensure that my endpoints are available using Synthetics. Also, as a customer, I would like to have several measurements per minute to exclude temporary connectivity problems. A workaround would be to set up multiple tests ...
1 day ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add Cloud IP Management to Turbonomic

The client has shown a keen interest in Turbonomic being able to monitor and automate actions related to IPs in the Cloud. Following a recent discussion with their Cloud Provider, they learned that IP prices are slated to surge by fivefold. Conseq...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Submitted

Support Instana backend on VMware Tanzu

Our customer BWI just closed a 5-year 35 mio contract with us which includes Instana. When we reach production we will probably have thousands of agents installed and the German Armed Forces (which BWI serves) will add another few thousand agents....
7 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Add Agent Zone and tagging option for ALL agent installations from the backend user interface (UI).

Most agent installation types do NOT allow adding a custom zone or custom tagging when installing the agent from the UI. Azure appears to be the only one that does. The zone and tags are simple configurations that have to be manually added to the ...
13 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
21 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

To offer TADDM WMI extention update as a .msi file to simplify automating deployment in environments where the autodeploy feature is not an option

With each TADDM Fixpack, an updated TADDM WMI extention is offered. This WMI extention has to be installed on all Windows systems to ensure the Session and Windows Computer Sensors continue to work properly. One can use the WMI Autodeploy feature ...
about 9 hours ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Submitted