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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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Agent Installation: Git-based Configuration needs a way to set a custom CA for Kubernetes-based deployments

When deploying the Instana agent via helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster and utilizing the git-based configuration, there should be a way to update the CA certificates in the container for self-hosted, self-signed Git repositories commonly used in ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Netcool Impact: manage scripts via source code management systems (Bitbucket / Git)

Add integration support to Bitbucket (Git) to allow end users to manage policy code on a project basis.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Google Cloud Run Support (serverless GKE)

As a user of Cloud Run, can Turbonomic help manage the tradeoffs of running services, maintaining a minimum number of replicas for the burst scenario, but avoiding unnecessary cost in idle services.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
6 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

try/catch in Impact Policy should give full stack trace

When writing Java Script Impact Policies I noticed the following:In the below code example Log(error.stack) seems to only output a truncated stacktrace, which isn't really much use in debugging. I see that I can use error.message,but that does not...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ScopeBasedGrouping GUI should expose the Policy Name to the parent event of the group

The GUI available in DASH/WebGUI to configure a policy for Scope Based Groups should expose the policy name to the parent event. Otherwise it is not possible to associate any further logic to the group or its parent event.It's probably relatively ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improved scoping on Host Unavailability Detection

As a user wanting to detect host unexpectedly going offline, I want to be able to filter the scope of this detector based on attributes beyond just host tags (e.g., to exclude a few of the worker pools from alerting using DFQ such as "entity.selfT...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

OMNIbis Probe for NNMi support of latest versions

The latest available version of Probe for NNMi (nco_p_hp_nnm) is 4.0, which supports NNMi 2019.11 as the latest version. The NNMi 2019.11 is very old and not supported on the RHEL 8.x. On the RHEL 8.x are supported following NNMi versions: 2020.0...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration