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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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Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana presents resource usage additionally display information from a cluster perspective.

The Ccstomer has presented their requirements for monitoring VMware content. Currently, Instana presents resource usage from a data center perspective, but they wish to additionally display information from a cluster perspective
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Under review

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
3 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Under review

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists

SmartModel driver for Cisco IE-3300 for OS 17.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
3 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Under review

SevOne NPM AWS Monitoring to Support Route 53 Monitoring

Today the SevOne NPM doesn't have the ability to collect Route 53 metrics with the AWS monitoring solution
3 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Planned for future release

Java ECS Collector on Nginx docker image

From support case TS013962979 "We explained to the customer that Java ECS Collector in an Nginx Docker Image is not supported at the moment, however, they would like to try https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Oracle DB - Instance status and Listener Status

I didn't find any parameters to set these alerts for Oracle. Below are the statuses required. These are very key and basic for creating alerts on Oracle DB. · ASM Disk Space Alerts [WARNING], [CRITICAL]· Database Instance Status [UP],[DOWN]· Datab...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Allow custom events be created for entity type: IBM MQ MFT Monitor

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Monitor is not available as an entity type to select when creating a custom event. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Monitor when they are in a status other than STARTED.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Queue-Level Message Size Visibility

Instana can enhance its monitoring capabilities by introducing the ability to collect metrics for the message sizes at the queue level, complementing the existing feature of bytes received at the channel level.
3 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Under review