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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...
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...

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Fix extranneous text created in Job Stream Descriptions.

Before 9.4 Jobdescriptions if blank did not show up in composer dump files. Now all the blank descriptions when the JobStream is editted change to "Automatically added by composer" This has the following negative consequences: 1. Dump files are mu...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Supporting aio-pika 6.7.1 library for Python application

Hi, We our Python application makes calls to RabbitMQ by using aio-pika library and in Instana we dont see these calls.Could you please look at it and add supporting this library?Thank you.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

Add grouping filter to filter VMs by Storage Used/Prov

VM grouping has filters for groups by CPU or Memory sizing, would like the same filtering capability using Storage Used and Storage Provisioned metrics.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Future consideration

INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Oracle agent (RZ) alert log monitor needs to handle a CDB/PDB setup where ORA-errors are now not at the beginning of the alert log entry

This is necessary else there would be no alert log monitoring capability (alerts missed)
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Percentage calculation between two filters

Hello, I wanted to submit an idea for a feature as i came across different usecases that could be fulfilled with instana's data. The idea would be to be able to calculate a percentage between two filters and be able to :- display it on a dashboard...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Planned for future release

In the Netcool JDBC Probe it should be possible to configure a limit for the select statement

The Netcool Omnibus JDBC Probe uses a select statement to read event data from a table. The select returns everything that falls under the "where" condition - and all that data is ingested into the memory of the Probe for processing. When the numb...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Session timeout for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

From security/compliance perspective, there is a need for enforcing session timeouts for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator & Event List.In case of any inactivity of user-admin logged into Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator, a session/inactivity timeout...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Not under consideration

Plug-In or patch updates in ACE toolkits to enable better viewing such as expand capability of ESQL conditions

- Similar to Java compute node, where one can expand the code at function level; compute node must be equipped with similar capabilities to view the code in a better manner. - Users (developers) must be able to expand and minimize the code at proc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Probe able to handle v3 traps with 100+ end points

When using the SNMP Probe to receive v3 traps, these need to be added to the mttrapd.conf file. When the Probe starts, it reads in this file and creates a hash table of the entries. For 5k entries, this process can take 10 to 20 minutes just to lo...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration