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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Compare Cyber 5 data year over year.

Dicks Sporting Goods has an ask to be able to view our Cyber 5 data year over year for comparison. For everything in our org. Applications, Websites, Mobile apps. Due to high traffic over Cyber 5, there is a desire to get comparable stats from yea...
4 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Request to provide ITM Linux Base OS package 6.3.7 to support linux on Power ppc64le platform.

Team, I am from Elevance Account to Support Tivoli monitoring. Linux build team is trying to install Linux ITM packages( ITM_V6.3.0.7_BASE_LINUX_64_EN.tar.gz on the server which has Power ppc64le platform, but this package didn’t support. So, they...
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

sshd and security ciphers that are no longer recommended by the industry

Within SSHD.conf there are older unsupported security ciphers that the industry has recommended to be mitigated. (This was found during a network security scan) Below is an export from SSHD.conf in its original file. # Limit the Ciphers and MACs t...
4 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Openshift Service Mesh support

Instana agent on Openshift currently does not support Service Mesh bypass and monitoring .
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Add Kinesis Firehose Cloudwatch Metric to AWS Sensor

Hi all, Currently, only Kinesis Data streams but not Kinesis Data Firehose streams are supported by the AWS sensor. Since our platform is also using Kinesis Data Firehose streams, an integration is much appreciated. Thanks in advance and kind rega...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Allow target sorting by configuration status

While on with our customer Humana this week, we were going through one of his instances that has hundreds and hundreds of targets with different degrees of statuses. He asked if we could submit a request to be able to sort by status like we can he...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

PHP 8.3 support

PHP 8.3 was released on 23 Nov 2023. Instana only supports 8.2, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
4 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Functionality already exists

User preveilages on Events and Alerts

We need to know how to manage Permissions for user/group for: User able to create event on his infrastructure scope / zone. it means that user can create event with threshold for cpu for example on his authorized host zone ONLY. and he can not see...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1

Automatic policy creation for instance type scale that take Availability Zones into consideration.

Sometimes, we encounter the error 'The requested configuration is currently not supported.' due to the instance scaling action. Example: t3.micro -> t3a.nano Regions where each instance type is supported: t3.micro: ap-northeast-1d, ap-northeast...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0