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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Support for VMware vCenter V8 discovery

Support for the discovery of the VMware vCenter V8 is needed.

Provision to export the topology Data into Excel from Topology Viewer page.

Topology Viewer ASM page has options to export the topology to PNG, SVG Format. Need an option to export the topology to Excel.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Future consideration

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
8 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Support for vSphere 8

Hi team, We found out that Instana supports vSphere until version 7 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-monitoring-vsphere#supported-versions Please support version 8. Thank you
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

ASM Fabric and Tenant Jobs/Listeners to connect to all HA ACI controllers

Hello, This RFE is for ASM capability of a single Fabric and Tenant Job/Listener to connect to all ACI HA controllers. We have three APIC controllers in high availability mode. Currently, ASM ACI observer jobs/listeners only support on APIC contro...
17 days ago in IBM AIOps Insights 0 Submitted

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Support auto scaling/increment of AIOPs component's PVC claim when current claim is 80% or more of current capacity of PVC storage and automatic End user notification about AIOPs health

We have observed one issue - the Netcool connector stopped processing new Events from ObjectServers. We founded out that pvc netcool-vct-netcool-conn- pvc was full, we extended it to 100mb from original 50mB. This has resolved the issue temporally...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted