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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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...

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Netcool Omnibus WebGUI widget - Value status Gauge

We have been using netcool for event management for long time. Before Webgui we were using WebTop. There was java based system of maps to create views/pages. Now in DASH we can use widget. Problem is, that we cannot create same view with lot of "b...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Add Windows Active Directory group (Security Group) to Instana

As per support case #27832, We asked to add AD group to instana to provide the permission to groups, but that feature is not available it seems, please check to add AD group for providing permissions.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Jobstream description in DWC

Hi It will nice to add description of Jobstream into the planning of DWC for IWS distributed. This is a funtion we have in IWS for z/OS
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

OpenSearch Support

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Saving NCO_PA configuration file via CLI utility

We can customize (add processes and services) of Process Agent settings via CLI nco_pa_addentry utility, but all new implemented settings can not be saved by any CLI tool.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Make action script population context aware

Turbonomic reads an existing manifest to determine where to make an action script visible when orchestrating an action. However, it only considers the phase and does not consider the entity being orchestrated. That means you can have an action scr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Capture custom HTTP request headers for outgoing calls

Background/Context We have a strong need to track http request headers on outgoing calls as part of detailed monitoring of a 3rd party integration. Feature request Support HTTP request headers for exit spans. In our case we need this for the follo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 0 Future consideration

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba: Probe should support more than 2 EMS to connect to 1 of available EMS on User provided priority order

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba: This Probe is currently supporting 2 EMS, where Probe will only connect to a Primary in general and to Secondary failover EMS if Primary is unavailable. However we have below requirement: If PrimaryEMS down, Probe should ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Show all information of the selected time period in the Kubernetes views

If a time period is selected and the user want to view Events and Pods of an kubernetes object (Deployment/Service/etc.) Instana only shows the Pods and the Events of the Pods that were "online" at the endpoint of the time period. For many users t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration