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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 Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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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

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
26 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support logical groups of resources to allow actions to be sequenced

Add support for “Logical group names” function that Park My Cloud had. logically group resources together that allow me to then sequence the order that groups of resources are stopped and started.
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Future consideration

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

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 Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
19 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Support for GPU instances in Azure environments

Similar to AWS, Azure also has instances that use GPUs, but they are not supported yet. Some customers operate LLM applications with AKS, so support that kind of environment is appreciated.
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
28 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review