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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Add imported groups to the Groups management page

Idea: Add a new section to the Settings|Groups management page that shows imported groups and their origin Currently, when you navigate to Settings|Groups, you do not see groups that have been imported from vCenter or other targets. The imported ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add threshold for response time NFR in custom dashboards

To be able to compare the measured response time with our given non functional requirements regarding response time it would be helpful to set a constant value for the response time threshold in a time series widget in custom dashboards.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see for Custom dashboard

In custom dashboard is there option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see the value for Custom dashboard as it would be helpful for SRE team to visualize the dashboard.
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Prod: change in autotrace webhook version needs application to clean and redeploy(prod blocked)

The autotrace mutating webhook is only called when there is a redeployment.We would need to rewrite this into an operator to gain more control and actually observe the state to trigger a redeployment. This is a production blocker as every-time we ...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Ability to setup email alerts on APM usage and active licenses in Account & Billing.

We have requirement to setup email alerts or any alert channel on APM usage and active licenses on a particular tenant whenever the license usage is more then 85% we would like to sent an alert to a concern teams.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

IWS agents to be cluster aware

IWS agents are not cluster aware and as such are not supported in environments that are clustered and as such not supported. We are running FTA agents on RHEL pacemaker clusters using nfs but are also assessing other remote file system solutions e...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Make the magnifier icon mean zoom

In any graph with a time axis, if you select a time range on the graph, there is a magnifier button which sends you to analytics and a ... menu with a clock button which zooms to the time range. I suggest you change this to have the magnifier icon...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration