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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 Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 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
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

attach the joblog to the email for failing job

on SAAS, customer is requiring that in the email received when job is failing, the joblog is also included in the email as an attachment.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

CNEA Grouping Guardrails

Customer needs ability to create "guard rails" by adding custom data from the event into the list of fields considered by analytics.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Ruby 0 Planned for future release

Characters that Netcool cannot use

OS:AIX 7.1 TL5SP4SW:Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4 I am using nco_postmsg to send a message to ObjectServer.A part of the message was missing because there were metacharacters and quotation marks in the sent message.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Need multi baseline - multi variate support for ICAM in PI

We plan to use ICAM as a replacement for Tivoli ITM. We are using already Predictive Insight and need full multi variate support in PI for multiple baseline support in PI. I have opened in PI but i dont know if i need another one for ICAM.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under 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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 1 Not under consideration