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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 Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Device driver for Checkpoint gateway, Model 4800

We are requesting driver support for the Checkpoint gateway, Model 4800 because current driver package does not support this device type.Software version on these devices is: Check point gateway and management server: R80.10
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Make FTAs secure - fix conman security gaps

FTAs include conman which can submit ad-hoc commands to other workstations with the sbd command under the scope allowed by the local security file. A compromised FTA may modify its own security file at will and submit any commands to other worksta...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add Tabs and filter / group by options in custom dashboards

We 'd like to have Tab button and Collapse button to switch grouping and to expand more widgets in a custom Dashboard like applications (call count Http Status Code)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Custom keyword for ELK

I would like to have the possibility of changing the keyword that Instana uses when redirecting to Kibana The problem is that Instana uses keyword that Kibana does not find, so when redirecting no machine is found.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Manually deleting specific traces from an application

We had a security incident at Instana, we found sensitive data in the traces of an authentication application. We are looking for a way to manually delete these special traces.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Log rotation for cockroachdb

Configure on the rolling of logs under /var/log/instana/cockroachdb as its been consuming a lot of space since we implemented the backend server. We need something in the configuration where we could provide details on how long these logs needs to...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Sector Busy Hour

Requirements from customer to have Sector Busy Hour calculation. Using the following small example, where we have the LTE Cells which belong to the same eNodeB “JHRTJML” LTE Cell Name Band Cell ID Sector JHRTJML_103 L26 103 S3 JHRTJML_102 L26 102 ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana where it is easily to debug more in case of db connections increase,load,memory and cpu issues
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future 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

Allow event handler to specify Variable Table to start job/stream

An event handler action which starts a job and/or stream should be able to specify a variable table to be used. In addition, it should be possible to run an executable with parameters to determine the variable table name. An absolute name could be...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration