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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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...

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Mobile Monitoring: Filter out network errors by default so mean latency is correct

Background and context The mean latency information in mobile monitoring is currently very skewed by that some calls show extremely high latencies. This is due to that Instana measures some corner cases that is not really interesting from performa...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Analytics: Filter backend calls based on origin == mobile app

Background and context The context of this idea is that Instana is monitoring a backend api + a mobile app which is using that backend api. In this scenario there is a risk of getting other sources of traffic (scraping bots, malicious actors, frau...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

agent upgrade post validation is needed

a post validation step needs to be added to the agent upgrade VB script to ensure we are able to resume batch after a successful upgrade.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

SmartModel driver for Cisco 900 and 900J Series Integrated Services Routers

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco 900 and 900J Series Integrated Services Routers
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Please adapt ITNCM TCR reports to handle larger ITNCM environments (greater than 1000 realms).

Please adapt ITNCM TCR reports to handle larger ITNCM environments (greater than 1000 realms). Customer experienced the following error when trying to run a report with the top realm selected (resulting in > 1000 realms): *******Error code: UDA...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

TPC Sensor Enchancement

Currently TPC sensors on TADDM 7.3 FP4 after successful Tivoli Productivity Center / Spectrum Control discovery, does not provide following direct links between objects: StorageSubsystem->Pools->Volumes->Computer System and vice versa. It...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Turn on Ruby AutoProfiling via the ruby-sensor gem

As you can imagine we run many containers within our infrastructure and we want to be able to turn on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling#ruby. However, as you are probably aware this comes with a performa...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Ruby 0 Planned for future release

Additional Parameter Option for Filemonitor

We would like an additional parameter added to the filemonitor process to allow the ability to relocate a file that has been preciously found and recorded into the filemonitor database.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

CustomAppServer to support script-based discovery mode

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (BABL) have worked with Aricent (an IBM development partner) over the last 12 months to create the ability to discover devices behind firewalls by utilising our BigFix infrastructure - this removes the need to imp...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration