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Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Install new Job types / Plug-ins into your distributed IWS Domain directly from the DWC

Leverage the power of the Automation Hub directly from your IWS Dynamic Workload Console to build more robust, agile, and future-ready automation solutions. With over 150 plug-ins the Automation Hub is rapidly expanding and allowing customers to i...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Correct the vague error messages output from twsinst

While upgrading FTAs from IWS 10.1.5 to IWS 10.2.3 we received the following vague and totally unhelpful output from the backup step. Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST backupInstance begin Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:38:39 PM MST /usr/lib/maestro/TWS/LINUX_X...
14 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Add compatibility matrix for plugins with IBM Workload automation

Hi Team, Currently, there is no compatibility matrix for cyberark plugin version compatibility with IBM workload automation versions. Hence, it is difficult to check and plan for TWS-CyberArk integration. Please create a compatibility matrix that ...
17 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Discovering DR regions such as UAE Central

Lots of customers have workloads located in DR regions and some of these workloads require performance assurance and optimization. It will be valuable to have that visibility over DR regions as some customers also use the workloads there for produ...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review