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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.
PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Ability to Make the POST Targets endpoint Non-Blocking when adding New Targets

When using the API to add targets in bulk, each call to add a target is blocking and requires validation to complete (success or fail) before returning a HTTP response. This is less than ideal since the script/process adding targets has to wait fo...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enable INSTANA auto-tracing for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Hi Team, I am creating this ticket as a follow-up of https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us/requests/23465. We at Arlo are using Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), a fully managed, highly available caching service built for Amazon DynamoDB. With cur...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Cancelation of WebSphere batch job (wsgrid.bat) on Windows should invoke shutdown hook i java

Cancelling a WebSphere Batch job on Windows, a java.exe process started from the wsgrid.bat only kills the java process. The shutdown hook in java is not called and the job/step i the websphere bacth container is not interrupted/stopped. This is "...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 3 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...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Resource Filtering for Mediation Packs in Predictive Insights

It's currently only possible to filter on Metrics being pushed into Spark/Cassandra, being able to further filter and exclude resources deemed unimportant will help refine and focus Metrics being consumed by the Analytics engine and therefore gene...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add basic monitoring capabilities for IEAM services on edge devices

In case of problems with the applications/services on the edge devices (deadlocks or malfunctions), IEAM is not able to detect the issue or restart the service if the docker container is up and running. This is a big issue for administrators of th...
over 3 years ago in Edge Application Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add "Google Workspace" as collaboration tools for Chatops other than SLACK/MS-TEAMS

This has been a request from customer BPER, that has already bought the solution but doesn't have the possibility to implement Chatops, 'cause they have Google Workspace as collaboration tool.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under 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...
9 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration