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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

SmartModel driver for Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers for OS 17.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
9 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Needs more information

Improving Resiliency #2: temporarily "pausing" the Agents if SAP ABAP is not stable

Agents needs to have the ability to temporarily "pause" its operations if the SAP Database is "in-accessible" or non-writable, or if SAP ASCS failover is currently in progress.
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improving Resiliency #1: re-attaching "running OS processes" in secondary node after a failover

Whenever a failover happens, we need the Agents to be capable of re-attaching the running OS processes (attached to each individual SAP Jobs) when its services are restarted/failed-over from Site A to Site B.
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the Workload Widget to show where new workloads are coming from to properly estimate and manage Turbo licenses.

There is a widget called Workload Improvement – and it has 3 types, On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid. I think it would be VERY useful if we add various parameters to this graph (focusing mostly on cloud) 1)Provider (aws, gcp, azure0 2) Subscription (Acco...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

TNCM Self Monitoring - Healthcheck

Self Monitoring of TNCM The client would like to have self-monitoring of TNCM, to provide visibility to the Ops team managing TNCM. They would like this provided in the same way as other products in the Netcool suite, ie via events to Netcool OMNI...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

9.5 DWC Monitor Workload: To be able to edit column definition for Job when editing task for object type Job Stream

In the 9.5 DWC, under Monitor Workload, when editing a saved task for object type Job Stream, the column definitions are only applicable to job stream. Our customers would like be able to select column definitions for both job streams and jobs in ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration