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Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Under review

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
5 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Support for Java library - EclipseLink 2.1

Most of clients uses JPA (Java Persistence API) caching using the implementation of the EclipseLink Library. By having the support of this library will improve the visibility and a better end-to-end tracking and the CPU/MEM metrics as well JDBC Ca...
28 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Create a custom Field in the Incident Details Overview to save the ITSDM Ticket Number

We have a customer that uses the generic WebHook to integrate with an ITSDM (CA Service Now). Today we don't have any restorability at Instana, when a ticket is create in the ITSDM. Our first request would be to create a custom field at Incident D...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review