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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 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

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'Current Transfers' need to be searchable with full transfer ID

Currently the 'Current Transfers' (in the coordination queue manager dashboard, for MQ MFT) are only searchable by last 12 characters as it shows only the last 12 characters (...236505bdbd2d instead of 414d51204d4654352020202020202020c0e1236505bdb...
2 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
23 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

MSSQL - Implement correlation between service and infra entity

Instana agent is able to monitor MSSQL but its missing the correlation between the service and the underneath infrastructure.If we click on Application Icon -> Services -> Database name -> Infrastructure tab. We can see the amount of call...
5 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Increase number of Stati in table view

In the table widget of DASH we can specify 4 differene conditions which leads to five different stati. As we have the requirement to show more icons we would like to increase the limit. It should be an easy change to allow more than 5 stati.
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
6 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

For NOIHybrid Deployment SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE should be exposed in NOIHybrid yaml file

For Customer with NOI Hybrid Deployment if OCP and Webgui are on separate Domain, user has to manually set SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE = "None" in Environment variable in commom-ui-uiserver deployment. for Any reason id user reconfigures the NOI hybri...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
21 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

Notification/ProgressBar during TokenTemplate Deletion

End user needs some sort of notification, when Token Template is being deleted. Even when there is some background action happening to remove the grouping against individual devices, end user has no clue of it. There should be log or notification,...
7 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

once should be select Parent event without child evnts selected automatically on Alerts Page

In 1.6.9 Event Manager, when ever user selects a parent event it automatically selects the child events. This make it impossible to see the Journal or take action on parent event in the alerts page. User will have to navigate back to the event vie...
7 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted