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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 Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

OracleDB - adding support for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set

Hi, We have a need for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set to be added to the OracleDB sensor because we have customers who are using this character set which is not supported by default and because of that they will not have end-to-end visibility of t...
7 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Dependencies/Flow tab Optimization to view data for a week

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down . Ability to show...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Capture details on request payload

Need ability to capture details on request payload this helps to troubleshoot issues without need for applications to log the same. Feature available with competitors. Please refer to - https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/4.5.x/en/application-monito...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

filter out the ServiceNow import data based on user-defined filter criteria" in Netcool ASM ServiceNow observer

We would like to define filter criteria for the data that gets imported in ASM from ServiceNow observer.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Request support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Versions - 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4

Request to support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4 Currently tracing shows "Source not monitored by Instana" for 80% of the SOAP calls.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
7 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Zabbix v6.2 integration (scripts) for on-prem Netcool Message Bus probe (webhook)

Cloudpak currently provides the ability to generate scripts to run on the Zabbix admin server - which include the CEM webhook URL etc where Zabbix would then POST events to (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.1?topic=SSTPTP_1.6.1/com.ibm.netcool_...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration