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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 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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I need TADDM Microsoft Exchange Sensor to add support for MS Exchange 2019 version.

Taddm has only "Microsoft Exhange Sensor 2003" and "Microsoft Exchange Sensor" and the two are not compatible with Exchange server 2019. I want you to help me finding solution for this issue. Thanks,
6 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Hitachi Storage target support required for Turbonomic

We have received a request from IAG (Insurance Australia Group) to reinstate the support of monitoring Hitachi Storage through Turbonomic because it is IAG's core on-premise storage. IAG is in phase of adapting Turbonomic ARM across the organisati...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improved scoping on Host Unavailability Detection

As a user wanting to detect host unexpectedly going offline, I want to be able to filter the scope of this detector based on attributes beyond just host tags (e.g., to exclude a few of the worker pools from alerting using DFQ such as "entity.selfT...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Operations Insight - Create Patterns with Override config (NOI Related Events)

We would need to be able to create patterns when we override the Event Identity in the advanced tab of the Create New Configuration in the Configure Analytics portlet. Currently, it is limited to the Identifier column and while it works for certai...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Queued planning orchestration tied to automation

Would like to be able to create orchestration plans and priorities that drive automation within superclusters. Example: Create a proactive plan that as new hardware is added to a supercluster that older hardware is drained in the specified order a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Schedule X working day of the month

Hello.When planning in a distributed environment from the graphical console, I don't see the possibility of planning a certain working day of the month, I have seen that it allows planning, for example, the second calendar day of the month, or the...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.

TS014338255: NodeJS App: Stacktrace: Queries are getting trimmed at random. Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.
7 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 0 Future consideration

TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
7 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Future consideration

Custom dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration