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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
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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Deploy custom widgets (via ContentBox) in NOI Full Cloud DASH

We had custom widgets in onprem DASH and we want to use them in FullCloud DASH as well.
about 20 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Submitted

IBM Netcool Omnibus Kafka Message Bus Probe to support protobuf message format parsing.

We are currently looking for an option to have an enhancement for Kafka message bus Probe, to be able to parse protobuf message format. We were implementing a new integration with the Nokia FSS system’s Kafka environment, using the Kafka message b...
about 1 hour ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Transform data on custom dasboards

It would be helpful if there is a possibility to transform Data in a Widget as some raw values aren't easy or helpful to visualize. As example, we get from a prometheus endpoint a metric providing raw values as bits, but in the Widget I would like...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now I...
11 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

A more robust Impact cluster failover is needed as the current heartbeat to nameserver primary is not sufficient

Currently, if the Primary Impact server is "crippled", meaning it is still up but is no longer able to process work, it can respond to heartbeat ping requests from the cluster members, causing the cluster members to think they do not need to assum...
4 days ago in IBM AIOps Insights 1 Submitted

Add cluster data to Turbo Plans

Currently the plans in Turbo show host level. I would benefit from seeing cluster level information in the plans.
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Submitted

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
5 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Filter based on risk category and description

Please add support to be able to create a group based on risk category (and description if possible) so that I can build policies that are specific to different types of risk. For example, I would like to be able to create a group and policy that ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted