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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 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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We need a force option added to wappman

We are thinking about working with wappman to move our workload to the higher environments. After some testing and figuring out how we can incorporate it into our current way of working, we notice we are missing a "force" option to bypass the warn...
28 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Services

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Ansible Tower backed Services. (ServiceAnsibleTower). In previous versions, the output of the Ansible Tower Job would display in in Services -> My Services -> <service name>. This no longer the ca...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Under review

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

NcKL - Omnibus probe rules file support for IPv6

NcKL - Omnibus probe rulesdoes not support Ipv6 at the moment. Several entries like $MOI_Remote = extract($Message, "neighbor ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+) ") are in rules files and needs to accept also Ipv6 addresses. Today more and more equip...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Under review

kubeturbo capability to execute rollout command after making change on Deployment Config in OpenShift 3.11 environment

A prospect with a large OpenShift environment has legacy 3.11 clusters which "ConfigChange" triggers are not defined (empty). In this scenario, k8s will not automatically initiate a rollout with a change that kubeturbo made to the spec template. T...

Missing mount point monitoring

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors mount success with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs of what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCAN KLZ...
29 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
29 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
29 days ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Under review

Miss page_sets parameters in Instana thresholds

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors MQ pages (percentiles and total) with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situa...
29 days ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Under review

Need to monitor Durable queues

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors Durable queues with Tivoli Monitoring in a way we can't replicate in Instana. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below are the dif...
29 days ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Under review