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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 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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Request a read-only role in Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, without delete/create permissions

We would like to request the addition of a read-only role (without delete/create permission) in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, regardless of which user created them, but nothing else
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Fix Message Bus Probe Inability to Handle Multiple Topics

When the Message Bus Probe is connected to multiple topics and a single topic has corrupt data, the probe fails for all topics, rendering the entire probe useless. This forces us to create separate probes for each individual topic and separate pro...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

attach the joblog to the email for failing job

on SAAS, customer is requiring that in the email received when job is failing, the joblog is also included in the email as an attachment.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Exporting data from DWC

The feature of exporting any details from DWC to specific formatted file, say a .csv file is not available. Addition of this will be of great help for operations/schedulers across the board
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Omnibus Gateway map file conversion of UTC time values to date time string

Some OMNIbus Gateways produce output where UTC time values need to be written out as a date time string. For example it might be necessary to covert 1666183259 to 'Wed Oct 19 13:40:59 2022' or similar. The gateway mapping file process already pro...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Tracing 'Send Email' actions

"Should we see emails sent by our java apps using springs Java mail sender? (I am missing outgoing Emails inside the trace or the email-server as an unmonitored system / host)"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java 0 Not under consideration

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI from log management tools alike we now have the ability to access the logs based on infra entities.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Functionality already exists

Detailed framework and JDBC information

Ability to collect and report on the used versions of instrumentation frameworks and jdbc drivers. Use-Case: Having performance problems on the database front and with having this information we can determine or exclude problems based on the jdbc ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java 3 Not under consideration

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

The customer would like to have better support when identifying the outlying metric in a widget. Some ideas:* Sort the item in the tooltip according to the values* Only show items in the tooltip which have values* Show the whole legend as a table ...
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration