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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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ThoughtSpot maintenance should be performed outside of working hours.

On the top page of ThoughtSpot, there is an announcement that "ThoughtSpot service will be unavailable from 10 11 2023 4:00 UTC to 10 11 2023 8:00 UTC due to maintenance".This is from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Japan time, which is during working hours. Ple...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Omnibus Probe for MS Graph API

The EWS API is being deprecated with no further development we will need a replacement for the Netcool Omnibus EWS Probe. MS Graph is the replacement API and we will need a Netcool Omnibus probe for it. The new probe should support a secure authen...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

To be able to monitor PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 4 Planned for future release

Enable Multi Resource Graphing to have the option of going over 100% so that vCPU which can peak to 150% or more can provide context for rightsizing.

It used to be that the multi-resource graph went above 100% but some customers didn't like that. So it was capped at 100%. This customer though sees big value in seeing when those peaks happen for proper context on rightsizing decisions and troubl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

JSON functions for rules file processing

The recently published OMNIbus 8.1.0 FP24 containes a new set of JSON processing ObjectServer SQL functions named json_prop_get, json_prop_set, and json_prop_dedup. This is great news! We'd highly appreciate having similar functions available in r...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Monitoring of Custom Application Error Codes by Instana

The customer uses Instana for Unified Payment Interface application monitoring. They want to monitor error codes generated by UPI application by Instana.
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Functionality already exists

Need to configure MetaSpace for applications hsoted at EKS.

Dear Team, We are unable to get the metaspace configuration at instana agent for our java based application running at EKS.
4 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 1 Needs more information

High Availability for the JDBC2 Gateway

The customer would like to ensure that gateways are running all the time and if the primary server [gateway] goes down then secondary should be available.
almost 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration