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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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...

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Provide Kerberos support for UserIDs in DWC Engine connections

UserID to connect to IWSz controller and DB2 reporting database via DWC engine currently requires a known password. Enable DWC engine connections to use Kerberos authentication to avoid the use of known passwords.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't support template variables, can we please enable them?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring of Oracle E-Business application

Monitoring Oracle E-Business is not as simple as monitoring a java app with a single jar. It is difficult for the Instana agent to attach to jvm for Oracle E-Business. Some customers desire to monitor their Oracle EBS. Therefore, it would be nice ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

MSSQL Databases table usability improvements

The databases table for MSSQL is very useful to pinpoint which database is causing a high resource load, but the presentation of this table makes it hard to use: 1. The columns for User Connections, Virtual File Reads, Virtual File Writes and Tran...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add using MS Active Directory user groups for managing user acces.

Give different access to the Instana application for members of Active Directory user group and not for specific user. Requested by Banks Security team
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

Runcycle offset, extended math

Allow offsets of runcycles to be layered, as in recursive. Starting from a runcycle frequency statement or calendar, allow it to be nested inside offsets by day, weekdays, workdays, other runcycle frequencies or calendars. For example, to run on t...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add support for tracing HTTP CONNECT method

Many organizations require the use of an inline user-space (e.g., Squid) proxy when apps connect to the Internet. It would be very useful for the Instana agent to instrument common Java libraries to capture not only GET, PUT, etc., but also HTTP C...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Future 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.
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Multiple Choice for HTTP Status Codes alert

We were working on smart alert and just want to monitor 501,500,503,400,404 error. But don't see the abilities to add specific codes. Multiple Choice would be grate option to select alerts.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Functionality already exists

Custom dashboards: Big number percent widget

Background and context When creating custom dashboards and specifically the big number widget we are currently limited to show data from a dataset for where a specific filter can be created. There is no way to show a relation between two datasets....
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release