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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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 stream name alias on event rule

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - Add support for WinRM connectivity

Why is it useful? - This would give a (more?) secure option to connect to Windows servers, which is built in to the OS, instead of requiring SSH Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this, particul...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Latency Timings for PageTransistions

Instana monitors PageLoads and PageTransistions. For PageLoads we see Latency, Traffic, Errors. For PageTransision we also want to monitor Latency as it is available for for Page Loads. We want to have this metrics available for PageTransistions o...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Active Transactions running at threads in Pods on Kubernetes called as "X-Active" is required.

There are dominent competitors against Instana in Korea Market.All of them are providing the feature called as "X-Active" that monitors active transactions running in pods on Kubernetes whether or not their state are normal or pending and provides...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Metadata attribute to be added to Webhook's General Variables to be used as tag for routing alerts, assignments etc.

Most of SevOne customers have alerts integrated into external Event Management or Service Management system. Having tag that indicating to which operations support group the alert is forwarded would help customers to enhance alert processing makin...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Update The NFVD observer Listener job to connect and process the data by listening of Apache Pulsar topic

As customer is moving from their existing messaging stream from kafka cluster to Apache Pulsar, NFVD observer listener should also made compatible with Apache pulsar message streaming cluster
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

IWS agents to be cluster aware

IWS agents are not cluster aware and as such are not supported in environments that are clustered and as such not supported. We are running FTA agents on RHEL pacemaker clusters using nfs but are also assessing other remote file system solutions e...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Make the magnifier icon mean zoom

In any graph with a time axis, if you select a time range on the graph, there is a magnifier button which sends you to analytics and a ... menu with a clock button which zooms to the time range. I suggest you change this to have the magnifier icon...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Allow the user to select the language on DWC

We usually set our browsers to use Portuguese language, but for DWC, and other specialist IT tools, we prefer to use the English language. Until version 9.4 it was possible to set the "Default Locale" on "Console Properties" screen to "en", so DWC...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release