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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 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

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Notification/ProgressBar during TokenTemplate Deletion

End user needs some sort of notification, when Token Template is being deleted. Even when there is some background action happening to remove the grouping against individual devices, end user has no clue of it. There should be log or notification,...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Requesting to create some dependency at objects level

Hi team, we would like request a new feature regarding the possibility of configuring some kind of dependency within the SevOne tool at the object level. At the moment, if a device goes down and this device has ping, SNMP Availability, and some in...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Improve context discovery for TOP widgets

There is no timeframe associated with the TOP widgets. The information displayed reflects the data collected during the most recent discovery cycle. Customers are confused when comparing the data from the TOP widget with data from other sources (e...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Rename 'Current Transfers' to 'Current Active Transfers'

When file transfers are going on, and the Instana UI is in live mode, the 'Current Transfers' metric on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard always remains '0' (see the yellow highlight on the screen shot). On the other hand, the ...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

The WMI Proxy ID should be visable in the Cluster Manager Settings under the WMI Proxies tab

In order to add a WMI managed device via API you are required to enter the WMI Proxy ID, the ID is not made available anywhere in the product UI or CLI other than make a MySQL query, which is expressly stated as not a recomended process for custom...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
6 months ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release