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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.
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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support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
about 2 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered

Allow users to set their own default columns per object type

For the DWC user interface, under "System Configuration" > "Set User Preferences" users should be able to set their own default column set for how they want to see result lists for each object type. This user-default set of columns would be use...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

INM cross domain topology discovery

Global Topology issuing SSH to check ISIS protocol.. Regional Edge routers are using the ISIS protocol but currently IBM is limited to SSH to devices to get ISIS status.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

SmartModel driver for Cisco IE-3300 for OS 17.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
9 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Delivered

Leading space in a seed file should generate an error

The problem was the empt line in the seed file or the space instead tab in this seed file makes the file finder not work. I suggest that this should generate a warning as nothing was detected by ITNM if this condition exists.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Support of Kotlin coroutines 1.6

Hello, We recently updated Kotlin coroutines to 1.6 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

Export/Import Application Description

The import fúnction is using the option DBMODE EXPORT/REPLACE in one step, but to split both OPTIONS in two steps is a better solution.This was also confirmed by IBM. We asked IBM if they plan to implement the two step solution also in the dialog ...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Give Instana Agent helm chart a possiblity to configure the path to containerd.sock

Instana Agent is expecting the containerd.sock in this directory on Kubernetes nodes: /run/containerd/containerd.sock As we are using an RKE2 K8s cluster containerd.sock is located in /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock instead which results in in...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Add "Connection Pool" metric for JBoss EAP 7

I need to monitor the http connection pool usage on some jboss eap 7 instances. I am looking for the following metrics:- available in EAP 7.0.9 & 7.1. The runtime statistics can be obtained via JMX MBeans org.xnio:type=Xnio,provider="nio",work...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Delivered

Add logs for webhooks for troubleshooting purposes

Hello, as for now, on SevOne the only way to know if a webhook is working or not is to test is from the webhook definition page. However, it can happen that after some time, the webhook fails due to some upgrade or because on the destination somet...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Delivered