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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 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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Use ENTITYID instead of MAINNODEENTITYID for BGP status polling

This RFE is based on initial observation and detailed discussion with L3 support. The L3 support finally concluded that such BGP event supression is impossible in the current design. With the current ITNM polling design, "Interface Filter" option...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

IMS TMRA tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction between WAS on Linux, IMS TMRA, IMS Connect and IMS DC/DB. But because IMS TMRA is not supported to be tracked, so they cannot see the whole transaction. They want to have the solution by 2022 Q2.
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Add back missing info from Workload Designer

In IWS 9.3, Workload Designer, when looking for an object (a Job for example), it would give basic information in the search results - Job name, Workstation, Job type, last updated (or created) and who last updated it. In 9.5 the last updated and ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

envoy sensors for envoy 1.19 with gRPC

we added Envoy >= v1.15 support to our libinstana_sensor artifact for distributed tracing in version 1.5.0.
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Delivered

Retain init.cfg custom user configuration when upgrading Dynamic Agent

If people are not aware that the init.cfg is overwritten when the IWS Agent is upgraded as I was not aware, then after the upgrade event rules could stop working, e.g. event rules which monitor network shares. I feel as this would benefit everyone...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Improve trace context between Weblogic T3 RMI calls

Customer's request: To provide trace context between outgoing (A) T3 RMI calls to another Weblogic instance (B).Used protocol: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/web.1111/e13721/rmi_t3.htm#WLRMI143Moving to https based protocol is not an option ...
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Numeric scale for sensitivity slider in Smart Alerts

a numeric value for sensitivity fo Smart Alerts is desired.Iteratively tuning the sensitivity of multiple alerts is complicated as there is no way to measure "how much" it has been changed or to compare sensitivities between alerts.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Enhancement of ITNM TL1 collector to include vlan details from the discovered devices

IBM recently developed and delivered a new TL1 collector to discover FiberHome devices. Post deployment it was found out that the vlan details are missing in the same. This request is to enhance the collector code so as to include the vlan details...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Support for Camunda tracing

The customer would like to have the ability to support tracing for the BPM application Camunda.
almost 3 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Enable Instana AWS agent to collect CloudFront Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

The customer wants to enable an Instana (AWS) agent to collect CloudFront monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered