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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger Config Backup' and 'Trigger Config Restore' on the Resource Browser

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger config backup' and 'Trigger config Restore' via an activity set via account management.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Planned for future release

Add an option to solve from the "Stuck Online" state, when you don't WANT to STOP the resource

In a DB2 HADR cluster been managed by TSA (SAMP) policy, somehow the hadr database resource was reporting "Stuck Online" state. Everyghing was fine from DB2 and HADR perspective, Instace was UP, HADR was running normally, both primary and Standby ...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Extended jobname in DWC

Customers running both the mainframe and distributed workloads often search for extended jobnames and require a view to display it
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Enhance the Workload Widget to show where new workloads are coming from to properly estimate and manage Turbo licenses.

There is a widget called Workload Improvement – and it has 3 types, On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid. I think it would be VERY useful if we add various parameters to this graph (focusing mostly on cloud) 1)Provider (aws, gcp, azure0 2) Subscription (Acco...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Allow to change Instana backend port from 443 to non-standard

Our customer is asking possibility to change default port of their K8s Instana backend. They use Instana behind loadbalancer. We found that if we stop Instana operator and specify the port manually at "gateway" config map: location / { return 301...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Support recent versions of MongoDB Java Driver

We are using a Mongo enterprise 4.2.24 cluster and configured the mongo driver in our java applications. With a very old driver version like 2.4.0, we can see mongodb traces in our API calls. But with the latest 4.x driver version (we have 4.7.0 a...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration