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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 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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add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Single Sign on Between Dash and Other products (eg ServiceNow)

SSO Should be supported between Netcool Dash and other available products that supports it . Currently we are trying to enable to login Dash URL from ServiceNow using Macros created in ServiceNow ,However without SSO user needs to enter their cred...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

For audit purposes be able to see user ids and last login on one screen

on user screen be able to see last login, also to be able to export user data.
12 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Future consideration

Get traces from CloudFlare Edge Workers

Instana does not seem to provide this at the moment.
12 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Not under consideration

Pager Duty integration - would be helpful to have more fields provided from instana so we can route better

Instana only seems to give an incident and service key for an alert, we can't determine what serverless repo orginated it.
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Ability Change the Timezone for the Event Viewer

Hello Team, We have a Global Networking Team that are looking at the events in the Eventviewer but they are being displayed in their local time. We have check the Node timezones and all are being set to UTC by default and We are assuming it is tak...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Client capability for IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager (ASM)/Topology

We need the ability in the ASM to decide if customers can see the full topologies or whether it should be limited to the TSI team only. Thank you.
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboards: Copy a dataset or filter from one widget to another

Background and context When creating a dashboard it's often useful to re-use datasets or filters between different widgets. If it's the same widget, the duplicate widget functionality can be used, but there is no way to re-use a dataset or filter ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Alerts/Smart Alerts on Monitoring events

Looks like you can only get an alert for every single jvm_attach_generic error. We would only want an alert when this event reaches a certain threshold. Lets say for example, one thousand events in 30 minutes. We do expect to get a certain amount ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

ESTIMATED END of a critical chain in real time

Currently the CP does not update in real time the ESTIMATED END of a critical chain. Considering that we now use the 'CRITICAL JOBS' panel as the only forecasting tool for what concerns the conclusion of critical batches, having the information re...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release