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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 Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Servicenow-Observer to provide ability to discover relationships tables separately from resource discovery

At present when discovering resources from servicenow we specify the tables to collect data from and have to be explicit with the parent and child classes because whilst resources can be discovered from the parent class and it traverses the childr...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

We want to control how often we access AzureStorage

We are experiencing problems with AzureStorage monitoring using Instana. The problem is that excessive access to AzureStorage causes "TooManyAccess" errors. According to Azure support, this error is over access from a subscription perspective and ...
11 days ago in Instana / .NET / Azure 0 Submitted

Need instana support for tracing of SAP MES (base on NetWeaver)

Background: CATL(www.catl.com) has ranked first in global power battery usage for 7 consecutive years, with Y23 Rev of over CNY 400 billion and net profit of over CNY 40 billion. It is an absolute industry leader and has an influential power on th...
11 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Provision to export the topology Data into Excel from Topology Viewer page.

Topology Viewer ASM page has options to export the topology to PNG, SVG Format. Need an option to export the topology to Excel.
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add support for Amazon EBS and EFS as a recommended storage of CP4AIOps when deploying it on ROSA

Background: Currently, only Portworx is a recommended storage of CP4AIOps when deploying it on ROSA. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.4.1?topic=planning-storage-requirements#storage_providers We have to consider migrate NOI...
13 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
14 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
14 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Connector: Manual synchronization of approvals towards SNOW

Hello, With current implementation, all the recommendations generated by Turbo are synchronized towards SNOW and CRs are generated. This can cause "pollution" as we would like to see in SNOW only the recommendations we know they will be approved b...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Submitted

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
15 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted