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Enable IBM DataPower Validation Credentials for TLS Client Profiles to support CA bundle / multi-certificate PEM files by importing and validating all certificates contained in a single PEM bundle.

Who would benefit: DataPower administrators, security teams, platform engineers, and enterprises managing outbound TLS connections would benefit by reducing manual certificate import effort, improving CA trust-store maintainability, and aligning D...
16 minutes ago in Instana / DataPower Submitted

stanctl install path for air-gapped and non-air-gapped need to be the same

The customer initially did their Standard Edition install using the air-gapped package. Per the installation instructions, stanctl is placed in /usr/local/bin. Later, the customer was able to get the Instana repos white listed and changed to onlin...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Add ability to mark http status codes as errors though they are not in the 5xx range

Hi, Certain application owners in our organisation have the need to report error rates based on functional errors which are e.g. reported with a 412 (or other) http status codes. This is technically not an error and those requests are not marked a...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Alignment of IBM MQ Queue Visibility Between Instana Applications and Infrastructure for z/OS Environments

This enhancement is essential to enable true end-to-end observability across IBM Z environments within Instana by ensuring consistent and correlated visibility of MQ queues across both Applications and Infrastructure views. Currently, MQ queues ar...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / IBM Z Submitted

Add support for MQ HA using VCS (Infoscale)

Since many enterprises use VCS (Infoscale) to manage HA for MQ, historically it has always been the popular option, it would be great for Instana to support MQ HA using VCS.
about 14 hours ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

Db2 Sensor support env

One way to avoid storing the password in the agent's configuration file is to allow the use of environment variables. This allows the DB2 sensor to accept environment variables. YAML com.instana.plugin.db2: enabled: true local: - instance: db2inst...
3 days ago in Instana / DB2 Submitted

Instana support Encriptation local password

We Have 25 cliente, Currently, all clients use Sentinel as their manager vault. Instana is limiting this to only accepting Hachicorp, and clients feel they are being forced to purchase Hachicorp. Clients are complaining because the data is stored ...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Request for Node Selector and Toleration Support in Nano Gateway to Address Licensing Implications

We have been operating IBM API Connect with the DataPower API Gateway as a component of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) since 2019. We are currently planning a migration to APIC v12.1 utilising the DataPower Nano Gateway (nanogw). However, ba...
4 days ago in Instana / DataPower Submitted

The OTel agent on Windows should be installed to auto start in the same way as the host agent

The windows OTel collector is not configured with any auto start configuration. This means that when a host is rebooted the OTel collector stops reporting until someone goes to the box and manually starts the process.
4 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Improve Geography view to allow view by states

By allowing the customer to have region/provinces as a deep view, they can use it as data for marketing or increase the MTTR by mapping regional providers/services/laws affecting the availability of their services. Right now, the customers is expo...
4 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

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