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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 Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Interface details needs to be displayed in Topology

Hello Team, We have the ITNM that is On-Prem and is running the Discovery. We also have an ASM cluster that is in the cloud and has the ITNM_Observer enabled to load the topology from On-Prem ITNM server. One of the requirement from our customer i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TEPS migrate script (used on non-Windows platforms) to operate against a remote MSSQL DB on Windows.

Hi IBM support, As a follow up to an IBM case which we had opened (Case ID: TS012735674), it was found that the existing TEPS running on non-Windows platforms like for example, xLinux and zLinux do not have the capability to perform migrate export...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 6 Not under consideration

Operations Insight - Create Patterns with Override config (NOI Related Events)

We would need to be able to create patterns when we override the Event Identity in the advanced tab of the Create New Configuration in the Configure Analytics portlet. Currently, it is limited to the Identifier column and while it works for certai...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Key rotation values in mdm-certificate.yaml needs to updated using the main values.yaml

The key rotation is set in helm_charts/ibm-workload-automation-prod/charts/wa-server-prod/templates/mdm-certificate.yaml. Customers who deploy using the https://github.com/WorkloadAutomation/ibm-workload-automation-chart/blob/master/stable/workloa...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

To be able to use SNMP OIDs in Metadata

For example to have the serial number or software version of devices in SevOne. It would be good if this was based on device type. Each device type would then have its own snmp OID. The serial number would be requested during the discovery.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Agent Installation: Git-based Configuration needs a way to set a custom CA for Kubernetes-based deployments

When deploying the Instana agent via helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster and utilizing the git-based configuration, there should be a way to update the CA certificates in the container for self-hosted, self-signed Git repositories commonly used in ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

New Timeframe: Custom Period

Add the ability to create a Custom Timeframe. It could be very helpful to scope a view to Custom Timeframe (or period). It is quite FRUSTRATING that you can't!
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Human in the Loop Learning

Correlation Groups: Supergroups should not dismantle subgroups to create flat group. Feature to click on the set of events/subgroups. To remove from group if not related Add to group if lying outside of group. Create new group from set of events. ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration