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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 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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Enable support for STIBO metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring Tibco BW - tracing

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 0 Under review

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
about 2 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Java profiling for windows OS

It gives developers continuous and historical code-level view of application performance that is essential for locating CPU, memory allocation and I/O hot spots as well as latency bottlenecks. Benefits anyone who is hosting Java on windows machine...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

To integrate IBM tivoli monitoring with BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty

how to integrate IBM tivoli monitoring with BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty by using (any of the integrate ITM to BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty by using (any of methods like REST API, Webhooks or any other)
2 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show the cost of deployments prior to deploying infrastructure similar to Terraform Enterprise.

One of the things missing from the developer workflow is the ability for developers to see the cost of their deployments prior to them executing the pipelines. Terraform enterprise and Infracost provide a solution to this.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Updates on multiple Policies - Currently only 50 records selected for SelectAll

We are not able to update multiple policies at one time. If we need to enable/disable/archive of policies, currently only 50 is selected at a time. Need to provide option to select more records (ideally SelectAll should select everything in the li...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review