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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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In the Netcool JDBC Probe it should be possible to configure a limit for the select statement

The Netcool Omnibus JDBC Probe uses a select statement to read event data from a table. The select returns everything that falls under the "where" condition - and all that data is ingested into the memory of the Probe for processing. When the numb...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Session timeout for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

From security/compliance perspective, there is a need for enforcing session timeouts for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator & Event List.In case of any inactivity of user-admin logged into Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator, a session/inactivity timeout...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Not under consideration

Support for Open Policy Agent

While it is great to have automation and placement policies in Turbonomic, it would be important to execute the actions recommended by Turbonomic in accordance with policies defined by organisations. These policies could be related to security, au...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Seperation of batch trace with large call volume into multiple traces

Currently you cannot separate/split the number of traces as the default criteria cannot be changed.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Probe able to handle v3 traps with 100+ end points

When using the SNMP Probe to receive v3 traps, these need to be added to the mttrapd.conf file. When the Probe starts, it reads in this file and creates a hash table of the entries. For 5k entries, this process can take 10 to 20 minutes just to lo...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Ability to monitor the custom process and change the process name based on the different arguments

This feature request is to monitor the custom process end to end. Basically the running batch process on the server when we have requests to run different batch processes some on a particular schedule and some on an adhoc basis. So, when the batch...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

File Association in Work item Perspective

Current Behavior of the tool :In ECU.WORX.ALM work Item perspective, only text editor is set by default for text files. But If user tries to open other files like *.mic,xml, etc. it gives an error. Enhancement Request:To show other files content l...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Orchestration 2 Not under consideration

Team / Org Seperation needed from CloudAutomationManager to AnsibleTower

Customers are setting up a single CAM / Tower system and want to be able to separate the templates and what templates each team can see. Team A: access to tower templates in project ATeam B: access to tower templates in project B Today the te...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration