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Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 8 Not under consideration

Automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM

We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/support/pages...
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Grafana like filtering option on SLO Dashboard

Hello, I wanted to create a SLO dashboard on instana and allow users to toggle between service using a drop down menu rather than creating 1 dashboard per service . Example via Grafana : * Grafana allows users to create variables using certain que...
5 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

To include extra custom slots in logfile agent as in existing version (v6.3 Fixpack7)as it has only 10 custom slots

To include extra custom slots in logfile agent as in existing version (v6.3 Fixpack7)as it has only 10 custom slots
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

Allow to use *AND and *OR in Omegamon situations with reflex action.

Having *AND and *OR in formula for situation with reflex action is currently not allowed. Lack of flexibility in the product means that whenever we want to test on the same type of event for example multiple queues, we will – due to the fact tha...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Need the ability to customize the collection interval for the k8sensor

A number of customers are ingesting more data than the fair use policy allows and are being charged more for their SaaS environment. They want ways to customize the data that is being ingested. One of the largest sources of data in a number of our...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
almost 6 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

TEPS connection to DB2 database over TLS

System: TEPSActor: User need new featureTo allow TEPS configuration to connect to a TLS enabled DB2 databaseDescription:Currently, TEPS only allows connection to non-TLS database. However, when the DB2 database is configured with TLS, it only allo...
over 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release