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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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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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.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Tracing through Ivory & CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) with Instana

SOAP endpoints running in CICS are recognised in Instana as endpoints only when served through an Ivory Server and the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Native CTG tracing should provide insights required to expose endpoints as Service entities in I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

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.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Monitor external https endpoints

There are components /services in an application which do some calls to external http based services. I can see this calls in the analyze trace view. Is there a possibillity to get an aggregated view how this external service performs? In e.g. App...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

List workstations in dynamic pool the same way as its possible for pools in TDWC/TWS

When using dynamic pools with "ordered list" it's difficult for operators to see which workstations that are active/defined in the pools.Should be possible to answer questions like:1. Is the agent part of a pool2. which agents is in a poolRFE 2254...
over 11 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

AWS Timestream DB Monitoring

AWS timestream DB monitoring
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

NOI-onprem - LastOccurrence field of Parent not updated by default

On NOI-on prem, in Related Event Grouping, it is observed that the LastOccurrence field of the Parent Event is not updated with the lastoccurrence that of the latest child events in that group. However, in case of Scope Based Event Grouping, the l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists