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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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Add a Native Dashboard to control the PODS and Deployments - Has the ability to add Nodes and Control the Kubernetes World

Customers and Teachnical (IBM Employees) would have a GUI interface to manage Kubernetes and not be restricted to command line only - https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor external https endpoints

There are components /services in an application which do some calls to external http based services. I can see this calls in the analyze trace view. Is there a possibillity to get an aggregated view how this external service performs? In e.g. App...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

NOI-onprem - LastOccurrence field of Parent not updated by default

On NOI-on prem, in Related Event Grouping, it is observed that the LastOccurrence field of the Parent Event is not updated with the lastoccurrence that of the latest child events in that group. However, in case of Scope Based Event Grouping, the l...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Override the Entity in the Event SDK

We are using event sdk within our OpenShift environment. https://www.instana.com/docs/api/agent/#event-sdk-web-service We are able to trigger events from within a pod, but they come in listed as an entitytype of Host. We would like these events to...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Consider disabling file serving and directory browsing (fileServingEnabled & com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing)

According to Visa Security policies fileServingEnabled property should be disabled on all the /WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi' file(s). This property is managed by global property which is com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing. If this is set tr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Functionality already exists

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists