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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 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.

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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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

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

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco 900 and 900J Series Integrated Services Routers
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Ruby 0 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 0

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.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 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...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Capture number of batched statements in JDBC tracing

The Java JDBC instrumentation picks up calls to org.postgresql.jdbc.PgPreparedStatement#executeBatch. It would be great if Instana's tracing would also pick up (as in attach to the span and present in the UI), the number of batched SQL statements ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Export custom applicaiton and alert setting

Doe to custom application view will similar with other application. So, export application setting will help to create a new applicaiton view. The customer alert is also the same idea with applicaiton, some alert will similar with other alert sett...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

SSL encryption for psagent workstations

In the near future, Peoplesoft will discontinue support for LLE tuxedo connections, and we'll need to migrate to SSL tuxedo connections (see attached) Presently, in workload scheduler, an extended psagent workstation cannot talk to a peoplesoft t...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add Y-axis to time series in Custom dashboard

we have created a time series widget in custom dashboard but it does not have Y-Axis to indicate the graph values and its becoming difficult to understand and present these values
about 1 year ago in Instana 3 Not under consideration