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Documentation for Backing up and restoring data needs correction

Documentation for https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-network-auto/1.1.x?topic=guide-backing-up-restoring-data Please clarify documentation on the following This page says: imageRegistry: 423562884727.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.comrna:instance:addr...
9 months ago in Concert Workflows 3 Is a defect

RIA: Allow forward compatibility with Backups.

At the moment, creating a backup of RIA via the toolbox addon is supported only for use on that version, e.g. a backup of v1.1.4 is only available for v1.1.4. This idea would enable official support for a backup to a later version, perhaps with a ...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

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

Update documentation for "Backing up and restoring data" with the steps for 1.1.5

Documentation to backup 1.1.5 does not show the steps to upgrade helm using the install.sh script. Please add supported method within V1.1.5 or later versions using install.sh https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-infra-auto/1.1.x?topic=backend-backin...
5 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Needs more information

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

Enable system logs towards syslog destination option

Currently RIA has an option located at Settings> System Configuration >Syslog destination but is not used for generating compliance and authentication logs towards a SIEM (Security Information Event Management) Can this feature include user ...
5 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 4

Improve Documentation UI for blocks in Workflow editor

At present the only way to view what a block does (for most integrations) is to hover over a tooltip and read the contents. The problem is that these tooltips are sometimes empty, vague, cut off out of the UI or just don't render for some reason. ...
10 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Future 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...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

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