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

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Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data. Search function does not find all CI's, because the search function searches only for components that belong to any of the following subclasses: - ComputerSystem- AppServer- S...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

In the Alleviate Pressure Plan the for the cold clusters the sorting order should be reversed to put green clusters at the top.

When utilizing the Alleviate Pressure Plan first a hot cluster is selected which is either a red, yellow, or orange cluster - which are sorted to the top for easy selection. On the next selection to select a cold cluster the sort order is the same...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Ability to assign/set in-progress/close multiple CEM incidents in one go

To have the ability in CEM to select multiple incidents and to assign them all to a team and/or an individual all in one go. And then to also obviously have the same functionality for all other actions on a CEM incident like setting "In-progress",...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Custom Template Sensor - Support pushing scripts to the target server before running executeCommandWithTimeout

There seems to be no way of pushing scripts to the target server before running executeCommandWithTimeout. We have solved this on Linux by code in the sensor.py by rsyncing scripts to the target server. This should be standard feature, so adding s...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Enabling Java Profiling for Applications running on Kubernetes

Currently, we only have Instana AutoProfile to support for Java applications which is running on EC2 instacnes. However we want similar feature for an application which is running on Kubernetes hosts as a conatiner application.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Functionality already exists

Have actions visibility adjustable at user/group level

Option to turn on/off actions types for users . Would be a nice feature to have the ability to turn on/off action "types" for each users . Example = Might have a user/group (advisor) that we only want them to see sizing actions = (turn on) sizing ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

Instrumentation for Spring Native

Please add support for Spring Native to Instana - all tracing and infrastructure monitoring, custom metrics (e.g. micrometer).
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 5 Not under consideration

IWS webhook capability

To have a EDWA action to trigger a custom webhook, nowadays modern alerting systems like Pager Duty / GNM even Netcool allows system to send alerts via API call.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration