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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 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...

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Case TS015515700 - MTTRapd probe - SNMP V3 credentials issue - SHA512 support

In UAT/Dev we have come across three devices which are using SHA512 as SNMP V3 credentials As of now, MTTrapd probe we have at is not supporting SHA512 and we have opened a PMR for this issue. Below is the response in PMR The details for the mttra...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
about 1 month ago in Instana / Python 1 Planned for future release

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Run FlightRadar and Instana Agent together

Unfortunately it is not possible to run FlightRadar and Instana together. This has been confirmed with our Engineering Team.Need a supported way to solve this issue , we already know about the incompatible agent workaround. To resolve the issue, r...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 0 Submitted

Housekeep metric and traces data

Provide a way to automatically house keep old metric and trace data if storage is reaching certain threshold or way to manually delete the data. It's better to have a method to export the data first and delete it. In the future if needed after exp...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

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 1 month ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Future consideration

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper EX Devices with OS version 22.*,23.*

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper EX Devices with OS version 22.*,23.* From the security standpoint Juniper has recommended to move to newer versions of JunOS e.g. 22.* and 23.* and with the older versions h...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Under review

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 21.*,22.*,23.*

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 21.*,22.*,23.* From the security standpoint Juniper has recommended to move to newer versions of JunOS e.g. 22.* and 23.* and with the older vers...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Under review

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper EX Devices with OS version 20.*,21.*,22.*,23.* [NETCONF]

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper EX Devices with OS version 20.*,21.*,22.*,23.* The driver(s) need to be able to support the management of NEs which have NETCONF enabled" 1. With automation tools coming int...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Under review