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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 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...

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ESTIMATED END of a critical chain in real time

Currently the CP does not update in real time the ESTIMATED END of a critical chain. Considering that we now use the 'CRITICAL JOBS' panel as the only forecasting tool for what concerns the conclusion of critical batches, having the information re...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Mobile App Monitoring - App starts and views performance metrics

Hello, I would like to know if features concerning mobile app performances will be developped in the future ? We are currently using Google's Firebase SDK to track metrics like 'Application start duration' and slow rendering / frozen frames but it...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Built-in Event on docker container - CPU Usage

Hi team, Currently, on the docker container entity type, there is only one built in event (on the memory) : https://instana.io/s/oAKdnEMqQtuTNHKaq1JBAw We would like to know if it's planned to have a built in event also on the CPU usage which woul...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Is there a Netcool Java Remedy Gateway version which supports the latest BMC remedy versions.

The latest BMC remedy versions i.e BMC Helix ITSM version 21.3 ( or 21.05 even). Future BMC Remedy version may also be containerized. We currently use Gateway for Remedy ARS V9: 1.0.9
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

TADDM DB2 sensor enahancement

DB2 sensor executes db2find.sh during discovery that uses list db directory command to find out the Databases. This command lists the contents of the system database directory. In the command output there is a "Directory entry type" showing the lo...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC - Manage Engine function was not enabled for Developer and Operator role to create Engine

DWC server - ttfai740OS Version - AIX 7.2.0.0DWC version - 9.5 FP02 Manage Role Section --> Only Administrator role have access to "Manage Engine" function, there are many application teams in our environment, we had plan to assign Developer an...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Event handler email attachments

An Action to send an email should allow one or more file attachments.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release