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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 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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ktor library support

Everyone using Kotlin platform.
8 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Filter unwanted Properties from the Topology Resource Details

Hello Team, We are looking to filter out some of the Properties in the Resource Details in Topology Viewer. Some of these Properties are not relevant to our End users and are considered noise when troubleshooting for an Event. For example, "entity...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

nco_config should not close an edit window upon hitting ESC

When editing a trigger or a procedure in nco_config, hitting ESC closes the window without any warning.If you are used to vi, then hitting ESC just happens - and all your work is gone.At least a warning box should appear, or ESC should be suppress...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Hide authorization token in alert channel header value

Please provide an option to hide the value field when there is a token inside for security reasons. You will find this in the alert channel header area. Details please find in the attached screenshot.
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 0

instana to support monitoring of Axway

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Add an option to solve from the "Stuck Online" state, when you don't WANT to STOP the resource

In a DB2 HADR cluster been managed by TSA (SAMP) policy, somehow the hadr database resource was reporting "Stuck Online" state. Everyghing was fine from DB2 and HADR perspective, Instace was UP, HADR was running normally, both primary and Standby ...
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

if we add the job in expired stream while saving it should send / flash the warning message to operator.

It should flash a warning message in TDWC/CLI while saving the job in expired jobstream, There is high possibility to add a job inside an expired stream which will be happening globally on all TWS projects.
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Netcool Omnibus WebGUI widget - Value status Gauge

We have been using netcool for event management for long time. Before Webgui we were using WebTop. There was java based system of maps to create views/pages. Now in DASH we can use widget. Problem is, that we cannot create same view with lot of "b...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration