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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 Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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We are looking for an Instana Sensor to get resource and tracing metrics from MarkLogic DBs

This would be useful in complemting our services which call the ML databases.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Cloud scaling actions in AWS should also include instance-level network performance metrics to assure performance after being executed

The following link (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-ec2-instance-level-network-performance-metrics-uncover-new-insights/) was provided by our cloud ops team when discussions were held regarding the validity of T...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Functionality to send email notifications when maintenance window is setup

Need to have the Functionality to send email notifications when a maintenance window is setup, goes active and when maintenance window ends. The email should contain who setup the maintenance window, window start time/end time, all CI's in mainten...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Alerting on call drops of less than 30 min

It would be useful for us to have the possibility of being able to create alerts to supervise call drops of less than 30 minutes
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Suport for monitoring FusionAuth java-http

We are asking for suporting this technology, java-http, used by this fusionAuth distribution, https://github.com/FusionAuth/java-http/tree/0.1.12. Currently, the JVM is monitored, but the related calls are not registered at traces, which would be ...
10 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Allow WebGUI Severity icons to be changed in OCP-NOI

To allow the functionality already present in the on-prem edition
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Allow flash time for EventViewer to be configured

The below properties in the <user>.nova files are applicable to AEL only ael_user_properties_flash_time:400 ael_user_properties_flash_brightness:0 ael_user_properties_flash_enabled:true ael_user_properties_notify_flash_icon:true The Event Vi...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling - Alert Suppression Request using web link or REST API call using programming and not just using Watson Maintenance windows

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling. In order of priority: Need an API for integrations Our Centralized Dashboard should have a way to set Maintenance Windows’s Users should be able to click a link in an incident ticket to disable/...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release