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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 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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AI automation in accounting etc

Artificial intellegence automation assistance for IFRS, zoho-books ,Sage 50 or Peachtree ,Quickbooks,ms-Excel , Tally -accounting softwares etc etc converting raw data into valuable required format results by giving instruction in pop up dialogue box
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

Instana WEB monitoring API key protection against malicious data ingestion

Currently WEB monitoring configurations on Instana are allowing anyone having access to the key used in the JavaScript configuration to ingest data. For security reasons it would be nice to limit the acceptance of data ingested by using a particul...
6 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

OMEGAMON Data Provider support

We are in the middle of a project to rebuild our event management solution. The target architecture should be based on Watson AIOPs and the OMEGAMON Data Provider will deliver data to the Watson AIOps Metric Manager. For this we need the OMEGAMON ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Extend MQ events

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager events that we need to monitor: "NOT_AUTHORIZED" "UNKNOWN_OBJECT" “Queue_Type_Error” “Default_Xmit_Queue_Type_Error” “Remote_Queue_Name_Error” “Transmission_Queue_Type_Error” “Transmission_...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Agent Installation: Git-based Configuration needs a way to set a custom CA for Kubernetes-based deployments

When deploying the Instana agent via helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster and utilizing the git-based configuration, there should be a way to update the CA certificates in the container for self-hosted, self-signed Git repositories commonly used in ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

MessageBus XML gateway: Custom HTTPHeaders property

The MessageBus XML gateway should offer a Property for usage in HTTP Transport (in httpTransport.properties) which allows custom HTTP header fields to be defined, which then get sent out in the outgoing HTTP requests. So, What is asked is: A prope...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Add Proxy support for FTP Monitoring with KIS Agent in ITCAM for Transactions

We are using ISM Agent (KIS) in Version 07.40.02.03 to monitor several protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP We would start with FTP monitoring, but in our company ftp connections are restricted to connect over a give ftp proxy. I was really surprised ...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration