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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 Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Space to add description to the Charts in instana dashboard

We don't have an option to add a small notes/ description about the particular chart when we scroll over the chart. Only Chart title will not be feasible to explain about the chart to team members. Please help to add the useful notes space on cust...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Lack of Request & Response Samples in API Document

We need "Request Samples" and "Response Samples" for all methods in the Instana API documentation on https://instana.github.io/openapi/ For example, the sample request body for POST and PUT methods, the responses returned by the methods etc. Then ...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Delivered

nginx v29 support needed

Customer had to upgrade NGINX to v29 due to security issues. We need to speed up release for v29 because its not supported by the latest Instana version. Due to this reason customer has lost some monitoring abilities for their critical systems. Cu...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1 Delivered

Ratio Based Alerts for HTTP Status Codes

Hi Team, I want to place a request to have alerts based on Ratio rather than just having based on having alerts on daily and weekly seasonality. This is required as we are growing. We might see some common errors increasing in the system and avoid...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Have a way export the Action Detail screen into a PDF document

It is good that we now have direct URL that can lead to individual Action Detail page. I will suggest we add a function to allow user to download/export the Action Detail page into a PDF document. This can be implement by ... 1. add an export butt...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Permission to Enable/disable Heap Dumps create Option (JVM Backchannel Options) from Instana UI

Dear IBM Instana Development Team, I am sharing some insights and suggestions from our Instana software experiences. While we greatly appreciate the software's capabilities, we have identified a potential area for improvement concerning the Heap D...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

increasing the characters displayed on the UI for a string type column

For ITM SQL agent -- customized SQL part , number of characters displayed on the UI for a string type column is limited to 64, due to which messages > then 64 characters are truncated, due to this we are not able to monitor messages more then 6...
6 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Delivered

Integration with Go - Fiber framework

Hi there. We are working on a new product and we are going live on 31st July. We are in need of an application monitoring tool in order to visualise the performance of the application. Instana is not currently not supported for web servers written...
6 months ago in Instana / Go 2 Delivered

ITM to monitor IBM RDQM MQ

We are using IBM MQ RDQM version 9.2.0.11 in our project and we need standard situations to monitor IBM MQ RDQM cluster (TS013070592) but we got the response from ITM IBM that ITCAM WebSphere MQ agent does not support RDQM monitoring. If you want ...
6 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Probable Cause Calculation

Need a telecom grade probable cause calculation. The current probable cause calculation based on keyword and probable cause count doesn't work for the project, as our alarm summary can't be based on NLP, the summary is very specific to telecom eve...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered