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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 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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Override the Entity in the Event SDK

We are using event sdk within our OpenShift environment. https://www.instana.com/docs/api/agent/#event-sdk-web-service We are able to trigger events from within a pod, but they come in listed as an entitytype of Host. We would like these events to...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor Mongo Atlas API via HTTP proxy

All egress traffic must traverse an http proxy, so in order for an Instana Agent that is deployed within our environment to read the Mongo Atlas API, we require the agent configuration to support a configuration of a http proxy. This may also be r...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Multiple period thresholds

This is about the TNCP threshold enhancements. The following is a simplified example of a typical Cell performance violation escalation scenario by the customer. Use Case: Threshold violation detection for 3G Cells across multiple periods...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Future consideration

Warn, alert, highlight containers with Root privileges

Please highlight with a specific color deployments and containers that are running with root privileges, allow to trigger alarm on this. Probably for those who does not have open policy agent it could be a first step or to add some value for those...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

OA-PI - The possibility of graph export

It will be very useful if OA-PI have the possibility to export KPI graphics to PDF (or similar) format. Currently, it is possible only to export data to CSV format which is not very useful for the customer and doesn't feed customer's needs. There ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data. Search function does not find all CI's, because the search function searches only for components that belong to any of the following subclasses: - ComputerSystem- AppServer- S...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

IWS webhook capability

To have a EDWA action to trigger a custom webhook, nowadays modern alerting systems like Pager Duty / GNM even Netcool allows system to send alerts via API call.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana. Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message b...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Installation Process should also include using yaml to install

This is to provide an installation path when using the console is not an option because of customer security restrictions. Also to make changes after the installation you use yaml. Also if you have to make adjustments from the defaults then it's a...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration