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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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IBM APM 8.1.4 supports RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4?

Please let us know what will be the ETA for IBM APM 8.1.4 supporting RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Script output monitoring using Instana (similar to IBM APM)

IBM APM customers can currently run scripts and monitor the output using regexpressions and create alerts on certain conditions. Similar capability is required in Instana to run scripts periodically and process the output. Example: Run a simple sc...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Have Turbonomic ignore DRS constraints if DRS is turned off on the cluster

I have some move policies that are failing to produce actions due to a restriction on "Segmentation Commodity" type constraint, built off of DRS rules imported from vCenter. However, even after I turned DRS off, it is still restricting the VMs eve...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Is a defect

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Allow the engine to load more than 250 AD Groups.

Currently when attempting to filter the Edit share list for available groups only 250 groups are shown in Available Groups. When we select All to share , in the Groups Selected for Sharing, all the groups should be visible so that we remove the Gr...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Need the DB2 sensor to be able to monitor the DB2 diag log (db2diag.log)

The DB2 diag log (db2diag.log) contains a critical set of information for customers wishing to monitor their DB2 servers. Many Warning and Critical conditions are logged to db2diag.log. In addition, for customers looking to migrate from IBM's olde...
7 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Download & Export only top 50

Allows you to download all line items in the top list when selecting Download. Otherwise you need to keep on clicking on "View More" to see all of the line items. If you want to see 1000s then you need to click "View More" until you reach the end ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Collecting external URLs used in Webviews

Hi all, following support ticket TS012739487 regarding flutter monitoring within Instana, we need now to have a way to collectU, within Instana, all the URLs that are getting accessed when we're using webviews in our mobile applications. Please le...
7 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration