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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.
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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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Turn on Ruby AutoProfiling via the ruby-sensor gem

As you can imagine we run many containers within our infrastructure and we want to be able to turn on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling#ruby. However, as you are probably aware this comes with a performa...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Ruby 0 Planned for future release

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim built-in metrics and Events

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume (PV) and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) built-in metrics and Events. PV/PVC metrics are essential to monitoring applications storge, however, Instana doesn't provide built-in metrics nor Events to cover the stor...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3

API Filter for tenants in the integration with grafana

Configuring the Metric API as a Grafana data source Last Updated: 2022-02-24 The Monitoring component provides an API that enables metrics to be accessed using a subset of the PromQL query language. This API provides access to all metrics that a...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Alerting for license usage

Due to the new licensing terms and conditions an alert needs to exist which notifies if the current agent usage reaches the amount of purchased licenses. The alert should be customizable with an individual absolute or percentage based threshold.Th...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

support com.instana.secrets filtering on HTTP cookie headers

The HTTP Cookie header is useful to capture for debugging purposes. However, for security in depth it would be beneficial to be able to mask certain cookies, e.g. the login/session cookie.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

ITM 6.3.0.7 all service packs only allow keyfile.kdb for certificate usage. For automation reasons it would be very helpful to offer Microsoft Crypto Api and/or Windows keystore usage instead ITM keyfile.kdb.

Microsoft Crypto Api / Windows keystore are standards which would help to automate cerificate maintenance.
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

Event Reader Service should warn users on save if a field used in the Event Reader Filter is not in the selected fields

The request is for adding a warning option to Omnibus EventReader service when users are triying to make changes that will affect restriction filter. The solution should be implemented on Impact 7.1 and it was discussed with Impact L2 engineers wh...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Polling of bandwidth for utilization on specific interfaces, esp when sub interfaces are present

We have devices discovered and they have a interface say like se0/1/0 and there is a subinterface se0/1/0.100 underneath it. I have inbandwidth and outbandwidth polling enabled. And it detects utilization above 90% and sends alerts and everything...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Capture number of batched statements in JDBC tracing

The Java JDBC instrumentation picks up calls to org.postgresql.jdbc.PgPreparedStatement#executeBatch. It would be great if Instana's tracing would also pick up (as in attach to the span and present in the UI), the number of batched SQL statements ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

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