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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 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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Cognos Analytics Reporting: Other category for chart visualisation

Looking for Other Category for Chart visualisation over Cognos Analytics Reporting
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Add TADDM Ability to try both RSA and DSA keys for SSH logins when both private keys are available on the Discovery Server

The current TADDM behavior during discovery of servers through SSH keys is to attempt to login only with one key (RSA or DSA). If both key exists, only RSA key is used. The enhancement request is to have TADDM try both the RSA and DSA keys during ...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

RBAC UI - Ability to 'Select All' when selecting Product Areas, k8s etc

As an Instana administrator, I would like the ability to 'Select All' before or after filtering when setting up Groups so that I easily set up Groups with access to a large number of product areas. (Currently it is possible to filter but then you ...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0

Plugin Powercenter - try to reconnect in case of broken connection

When we submit Powercenter jobs, if the connection between IWS and Powercenter is broken by any external reason the jobs currently end in error on IWS, but continue to execute on Powercenter. Therefore the user always needs to enter on Powercenter...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

support com.instana.secrets filtering on HTTP cookie headers

The HTTP Cookie header is useful to capture for debugging purposes. However, for security in depth it would be beneficial to be able to mask certain cookies, e.g. the login/session cookie.
11 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

TADDM should create IpDevice for ALL IPs that respond to ping

Expectations are that all active IPs will be detected by TADDM, and at a minimum IpDevice will be created. We have detected this is not happening today. Today, TADDM only detects devices with certain TCP ports active. RFE is to enhance the PingSen...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Event Reader Service should warn users on save if a field used in the Event Reader Filter is not in the selected fields

The request is for adding a warning option to Omnibus EventReader service when users are triying to make changes that will affect restriction filter. The solution should be implemented on Impact 7.1 and it was discussed with Impact L2 engineers wh...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 1 Not under consideration

enable the possibility to rerun a job or a jobstream cancelled

we need to have the possibility to rerun a job or a jobstream previusly cancelled
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add information in the DISCEVNT tables to improve reporting capabilities of discovery events

Reporting of discovery events, especially when using non-standard SensorNames (for example "SessionSenssor for non-anchors") os un-necessarily complicated because information about sensorName, and target IP, and targetIP_AddressScope are not repre...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration