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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 Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Allow users to choose a group name when saving a scope

A user without site admin privileges cannot create groups explicitly but is able to save a scope resulting in an implicit group creation. Unfortunately the group is named automatically with a cryptic name. Please add a feature to name the resultin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

ASM observer for IBM Public Cloud

Caixa customer with huge investment in IBM Public Cloud, is interested in CP4WAIOps (nowadays we are running a PoC). We need an observer for IBM Public Cloud. The actual one is related to Cloud Foundry which was deprecated a while ago from IBM Pu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Future consideration

Probe for Message Bus - Add EMS failover option

The message bus probe does not support an EMS failover option presently. The probe should allow the possibility to configure a second EMS endpoint by introducing SecondaryHost and SecondaryPort properties. In our setup, the customer's EMS cluster ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Orchestration 2 Not under consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Ability to globalize endpoint mapping

The default rule for determining http endpoints: "Use the first url segment" is insufficient for us in many areas. There are two ways to override this: 1. Creation of a large number of additional rules with endpoint definitions in the Instana conf...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

add floating border in UI

When viewing a call in Analyzing > Call, lets say a DB call lots of data regarding the query will not fit the right hand window. I know that you can hit the "Copy" button or use the slider in that frame but I want to do a screenshot with both C...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release