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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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Instrumentation for Spring Native

Please add support for Spring Native to Instana - all tracing and infrastructure monitoring, custom metrics (e.g. micrometer).
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 5 Not under consideration

(NPI) Ability to modify Traffic Volume Trend graph to view bandwidth by interface/circuit

Would like the ability to modify the Traffic Volume Trend graph to view the bandwidth used based on a specific interface and/or circuit, by percentage of bandwidth used (i.e. 0-100%).
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

new field to monitor jobs on the plan

Create a new editable column on DWC (E.g. Monitor Job/ Jobstream) where operators and users are able to edit and put notes for each job. Today similar functionally exists on TWS/z, field "Operation Text" where it can be informed some description.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button. This would benefit both the Turbonomic PS/CS team members and client to understand and identify the current client licensing. It would work that at the heading would di...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

DASH Console Integration [REST] with Netcool/Impact with OAuth like Google

Please facilitate DASH to authenticate using OAuth like Google based Netcool/Impact for it's REST console Integration to work
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Tracing through Ivory & CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) with Instana

SOAP endpoints running in CICS are recognised in Instana as endpoints only when served through an Ivory Server and the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Native CTG tracing should provide insights required to expose endpoints as Service entities in I...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

src stops too early at system shutdown / reboot

during shutdown a linux server we want to exclude the node using /etc/init.d/rcx.. scripts but src was killed as soon as shutdown begins so we have no chance to stop our applications before.
over 9 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 5 Not under consideration

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Not under consideration

supported cpu for detection of abnormal end of applications

One of our prospect of resell partner of Instana found that "no-support of Intel cpu" when its applications had been ended abnormally. The customer wondered why only AMD was supported, even Intel also share majority of market footprints. We need t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 3 Not under consideration

Create operand to delete operators when uninstalling MCM v2.0.0

When uninstalling MCM v2.0.0 the user should have the ability to use an out-of-the-box operand to uninstall all of the operators MCM v2.0.0 creates. It is tedious to delete every operator when an install goes wrong.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration