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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
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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Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Need the DB2 sensor to be able to monitor the DB2 diag log (db2diag.log)

The DB2 diag log (db2diag.log) contains a critical set of information for customers wishing to monitor their DB2 servers. Many Warning and Critical conditions are logged to db2diag.log. In addition, for customers looking to migrate from IBM's olde...
9 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Download & Export only top 50

Allows you to download all line items in the top list when selecting Download. Otherwise you need to keep on clicking on "View More" to see all of the line items. If you want to see 1000s then you need to click "View More" until you reach the end ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to solve from the "Stuck Online" state, when you don't WANT to STOP the resource

In a DB2 HADR cluster been managed by TSA (SAMP) policy, somehow the hadr database resource was reporting "Stuck Online" state. Everyghing was fine from DB2 and HADR perspective, Instace was UP, HADR was running normally, both primary and Standby ...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

OOB functionalities oriented to telecommunications companies

The event management solution, NOI has and is used by many companies in the telecommunications sector and we are promoting Cloud Pak for watson AIOPs as the evolution of traditional management, I believe it would be of greater impact if we had OOB...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger Config Backup' and 'Trigger Config Restore' on the Resource Browser

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger config backup' and 'Trigger config Restore' via an activity set via account management.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Planned for future release

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Collecting external URLs used in Webviews

Hi all, following support ticket TS012739487 regarding flutter monitoring within Instana, we need now to have a way to collectU, within Instana, all the URLs that are getting accessed when we're using webviews in our mobile applications. Please le...
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Provide an UI view for the historical resolved alerts, stories WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager). There is a filter that let's you choose "Status = Resolved" but it is not showing result.

The customer will like to have some way to show the lasted alerts and stories been resolved because it could be shown on stories and alerts after. How to visualize resolved Stories? There is a filter that let's you choose "Status = Resolved" but i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide more information on-demand costs in the Recommendation download file for VMs

I would like to see both the on demand costs for the downsized machines both with ROI and without the ROI as it will be more helpful on calculation savings from the on demand
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration