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Instana

Observability Support for IBM QRadar SIEM Appliances Infrastructure Monitoring and Distributed Tracing for IBM QRadar

QRadar customers cannot observe their SIEM with Instana due to lack of official support. While a basic Docker Instana agent install on QRadar Community Edition successfully discovers infrastructure components (host, 7 Podman containers, 21 process...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Add the ability to rotate the Agent api key

Currently there is no way to rotate your agent's API key when using the SASS product, it'd be nice if it were possible to e be able to rotate it for security purposes
about 15 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Capability to not limit the charts grouping output to max 50 items

Following up on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ00000AoBsAQAV/charts-grouping-limiting-the-output-to-max-50-items?language=en_US Currently, when trying to view the nodes from one cluster only (so for sure there will be less than 10k of t...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

BeeInstana‑Status im Instana‑Operator‑Log anzeigen

uring the deployment of the Instana backend, the operator log records the status of all databases – except BeeInstana. This creates confusion and hampers monitoring. Consolidate all database information in a single placeProvide full transparency d...
5 days ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

Segregation of Duties / Principle of Least Privilege for Instana Backend management

The self-hosted Instana Standard Edition (Linux) backend should have actions requiring root authority cleanly differentiated from those for application management. This would allow application management to be delegated down to a service account, ...
6 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Submitted

Enhancing MSSQL Monitoring

Customer would like to monitor; 1) Which database user or application connected to the MSSQL instance. 2) In the current top queries table, database user(s) which is running these queries is missing. Customer would like to have this data also in t...
6 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers Submitted

Shared Ethernet Adapter State Monitoring

Customer would like to monitor and create events based on "Network Shared Adapter State" of VIOs. For reference, you can take a look for ITM6 VIO agent "KVA_NETWORK_ADAPTERS_RATES.HA_State" attribute group. Customer exactly needs the same metric t...
6 days ago in Instana / IBM Power Submitted

Hour-Minute-Second-Based Analytics on Traces

Customer would like to do analytics on traces by not only with hour and minutes, but with seconds as well. Some huge domains of customer need "second-based" analytics, because hour and minute-based monitoring causes a big window to do efficient an...
6 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers Submitted

System State Monitoring with PowerHMC Plugin

Customer would like to monitor and create events based on the state of the "Systems" with the PHMC Plugin. CaseID: TS021577006
6 days ago in Instana / IBM Power Submitted