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Support for VMware vCenter V8 discovery

Support for the discovery of the VMware vCenter V8 is needed.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

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

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i / PHP / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Exadata support sensor for TADDM 7.3

Customer want to discover his Exadata source to improve CMDB and be able to manage it in more controlled manner.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Not under consideration

To offer TADDM WMI extention update as a .msi file to simplify automating deployment in environments where the autodeploy feature is not an option

With each TADDM Fixpack, an updated TADDM WMI extention is offered. This WMI extention has to be installed on all Windows systems to ensure the Session and Windows Computer Sensors continue to work properly. One can use the WMI Autodeploy feature ...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

TADDM integration with Ansible

Need an integration between TADDM and Ansible to support discovery of target endpoints (both Linux and Windows servers) located behind a firewall in the DMZ. IBM had previously suggested the use of BigFix for this task, but BigFix is non-strategic...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration