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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
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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just retain the name of original schedule in the schedule userjobs

If the schedule is not in carryfroward, its diffciult to retrieve original schedule in the userjobs schedule
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana: Ability to disable a micrometer metric (EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues)

Currently in Instana you have the ability to either enable or disable the entire micrometer collection.You don't have the ability to disable one or some of its metrics. The EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues when dealing wit...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Trigger alerts depending on several events linked with an AND

We currently use offline events in a static JBoss environment to trigger an incident at the control centre. Unfortunately, agent updates, for example, lead to the agents being switched offline in extreme cases. It would be very helpful if offline ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 3 Is a defect

the "seasonality details" page does not use the preferences. it should pick up the user preferences

when selecting details on seasonal events, the date format changes to dd-mm-yyyy. it should take on the properties set in the user preferences, so the format does not change between the main cloud event manager event list and the additional details.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Add Kerberos support for TEPS to DB2 authentication

Our company has moved to Sophia for server security management and it does not support the local username/password needed to authenticate to a DB2 database. We have to maintain local accounts and keep them in sync to continue our support of TEPS.
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

twsinst efficiency improvements

Ref: TS011706916 We've noted when upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5, and also when applying fixpacks to 9.5, that twsinst is performing "copy" operations on all the files in the stdlist directory instead of "move" operations. This has led to two issues du...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled.

As per Application security recommendation , It is recommended resolve below mentioned appsec in SCAPM application: Please find below details for appsec in SCAPM. Vulnerability Description in Detail:It was observed that the thick client applicatio...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Missing input validation - Server side and client-side validation

As part of Application Security, the following Vulnerability has been raised by our security team. Missing input validation - Server side and client-side validation
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration