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Add functionality for TADDM to discover Windows 2016 Nano Server Installation

Add functionality for TADDM to discover Windows 2016 Nano Server Installation to collect CI attributes and dependency data.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Jython API executeCommandWithTimeout improvements

A) The executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error. We had to redirect stderr to stdout. B) The executeCommandWithTimeout (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file. (The command we are executing does not as far as I ...
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Display VMware hierarchy in Data Management Tool

Our users want to explore from Virtual Machine to ESX host and/or VMware cluster to VMwar Data Center to Virtual Center managing environment. Currently there is no link from ESX server to clusters or to Virtual Center.
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Load Balancer Configuration For TADDM

As per the documentation, there are 2 ways to configure the load balancer for TADDM. One way is to run discovery job with load balancing across Discovery Servers taking IP's from different files and create new scope. The limitation with the curren...
almost 9 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Show all database traces even if they all succeed

We opened a case for missing database calls and learned how Instana works for successful calls. The engineering team sent us the following quote, "Span batching in general doesn't consider the payloads. The rules are based on span metadata like d...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Support for Grails in Application Monitoring & Tracing

Currently Grails application although running in the JVM can not be monitored on Application Monitoring mode.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Full support for Spring Integration framework within Java tracer

Currently, Spring Integration is not a fully supported framework. Some of the calls are supported, but not all.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Tracing through Ivory & CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) with Instana

SOAP endpoints running in CICS are recognised in Instana as endpoints only when served through an Ivory Server and the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Native CTG tracing should provide insights required to expose endpoints as Service entities in I...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration