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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Improvement of status of file-observer

When the file-observer has the state "finished", there are still some jobs in the background, i.e. indexing in Elasticsearch. The state in the overview of topology-management is irritating, as the user might still see some undefined resources in ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Planned for future release

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

XML Gateway insert Support for details & journal table

XML Gateway (Message Bus gateway) isn't passing Inserts from the details or journal tables. A single Message Bus Gateway should be able to extract data from all the tables listed in the table replication file. Data should be output to handle the u...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

RPC call in Instana is not capturing http status code

http code for WCF is mapped as RPC calls in Instana UI and same has been confirmed in the support ticket, we would like to get correct mapping for all http codes in WCF.
25 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

ITM for Omegamon (TEPS functionality) should support passphrases

ITM 6.3.0 FP7 SP2/SP5 does not support passphrases. Currently ITM limitations are as follows: 1) up to 50 characters 2) For Distributed system, the acceptable characters are as following - For tacmd login those characters are between the brackets ...
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 8 Planned for future release

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to create ONT entities.

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to build and create topology between OLT -> ONU.
2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
2 months ago in Instana / Python 2 Planned for future release

Another Large Bank would like one of SevOne's to support monitoring of Silverpeak SDWAN

Another Large Bank would like one of SevOne's supported SDWAN vendors to be Silverpeak- as they've made heavy investments in this area.
8 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Planned for future release