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Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Workload Planning - more providers: OCI, Stackit

Currently in Apptio Workload planning, we only have AWS, Azure and GCP. Please consider implementing also OCI and Stackit to allow a comparison of cost of resources across more cloud providers
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 3 Future consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Compare an application with different zone / csp in WLP

The idea would be to take a tag / business mapping and all the resources linked to that application, push them into WLP and be able to compare the actual costs with the cost from different regions / CSP to evaluate where it would be the cheapest t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 2 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link connecting to the specific analyzed page for monitoring in detail

The customer in charge of IBM MQ monitoring requested the feature, which is "Instana Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link directly connected to the specific analyzed page" for monitoring in detail. The reason is that he wants to see the ...
9 months ago in Instana / MQ / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Need a way to detect that the input rate on a queue is exceeding the output rate

The customer has applications where the consuming application components occasionally have problems. They don't consume the messages off the queue fast enough. If this happens for a very short period of time, it is not a problem. But, when it occu...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration