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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 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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Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Sorting Function in "Apply Native Command Set" Menu

Hello, regarding PMR 20378,999,724 we're opening this RFE.When someone wants to apply a Native Command Set to only some devices in a Realm, you have to search the right device(s) in a unsorted list (view Screenshot). A sort function or a standard ...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Future consideration

add a rm /tmp/rm$$ stanza in a rmstdlist command

because a rmstdlist command does not clean there temporary file.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

to extract from Azure the fact that a disk is an OS disk or a data disk without needing to rely on a naming standard

this will make it easier to associate different policies associated to the different disk types
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

When DataType detects a DB Type change should show a sign e.g. an exclamation point to indicate the required D.T. refresh

When DataType detects a DB Type change and updates the data in DataType (for instance from Oracle NUM16 to NUMBER) and data in the DataType changed from Integer to Float, it should show an exclamation point to indicate that DataType has detected D...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

9.5 DWC Monitor Workload: To be able to edit column definition for Job when editing task for object type Job Stream

In the 9.5 DWC, under Monitor Workload, when editing a saved task for object type Job Stream, the column definitions are only applicable to job stream. Our customers would like be able to select column definitions for both job streams and jobs in ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration