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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 Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Snmpv3 - notification for unknown EngineID

It is necessary to develop functionality so that the snmp probe identifies snmpv3 traps, for which EngineID isn't set in the config file. And for that traps, we need the probe to send a notification that informs us to update the config file with n...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Certify Multi Factor Authentication IBM DASH integration with Okta

Default Authentication for IBM DASH using Websphere is not sufficient to protect unauthorized users into system. Enterprises use Okta's web-based, single sign-on (SSO) application to provide a single centralised interface to access third-party p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

allow non-admins to view policies and how they are configured

When a user looks at a recommendation, they can see that certain policies are being used, but they are unable to see the policies themselves or what the policy is composed of. A user can see hyperlinks to the policies but they get re-directed to t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
about 2 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Vmware Agent ITM version 07.30.03.00 up limit table KVM_TOPOLGY

TS008498905 2022-03-30 10:49:26 40 INFO: Inventory.processUpdate: Total count of monitored objects in the environment(10.113.52.212) is 3501. Data collection of Topology attribute group is disabled as it is supported to collect data for the maximu...
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.

TWS version 8.6.0.1TDWC version 8.6.0.1Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.In critical situations where a server with a TWS agent goes down or have severe performance problems, it is necessary,to identi...
over 11 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state Instana Zendesk Ticket support for more details - Request #32621
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Utilization of GCP committed discounts.

Discount Inventory of Azure RIs have the information of percent utilization and the VMs which are using that RI for each RI which is good to analyze. The similar information of percent utilization and and VMs which are utilizing the GCP committed ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

FR - Python sensor support for Tornado 6

At this moment instana python sensor it's only support Tornado bellow version 6.0.0 but we need to update and app that depends on Tornado 6.1 and we need the Instana monitoritation. It's possible add support for Tornado >= 6.0.0 to Instana Pyth...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Workload Scheduler support for linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses"

see ticket IBM support request TS005150482:IBM Workload Scheduler 9.5 Fixpack 3 - with linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses" every TWS command freezes------------------------------------------environment:TWS Client Version 5 Fickpack 03operatingSy...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration