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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 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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Expose PHP FPM connectionResets metric

Currently it is not possible to add a custom event based on the connectionResets FPM metric. This would be important to us as the limits set by the default "Too many connections reset" FPM event are too low and we would like to customize it.
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 0 Future consideration

nco_pa_remove_entry

At the moment it is possible to add entries in the nco_pa by using the commandline tool nco_pa_add_entry, but it is not possible to remove an entry. Therefore we need for automatic changes with ansible a toll wich removed an existing entry from th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

sort of job into a jobstream on DWC

Hi When you define jobs into DWC they are always presented into the order you define them and when you want to reorganize them into a logical order or sort the job by name or by any field you cannot.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

CNEA Grouping Guardrails

Customer needs ability to create "guard rails" by adding custom data from the event into the list of fields considered by analytics.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

In the Alleviate Pressure Plan the for the cold clusters the sorting order should be reversed to put green clusters at the top.

When utilizing the Alleviate Pressure Plan first a hot cluster is selected which is either a red, yellow, or orange cluster - which are sorted to the top for easy selection. On the next selection to select a cold cluster the sort order is the same...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Create Driver for Cisco Wireless Link Controllers 5508

Please create managed SmartModels for:Vendor: CiscoType: Wireless Lan ControllerModel: 5508OS: 7.2.111.3 and 7.4.110.0
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) I...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration