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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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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...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Populating SRC_TRANSPORT & DST_TRANSPORT Metadata for Versa

We have a situation that a Versa customer wants to create specific alert policies based on source tunnel type (transport) and destination tunnel type. Today, the solution only captures the tunnel type on the source side utilizing the object type. ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Planned for future release

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
7 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...
7 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

Sorting Function in "Apply Native Command Set" Menu

Hello, regarding PMR 20378,999,724 we're opening this RFE.When someone wants to apply a Native Command Set to only some devices in a Realm, you have to search the right device(s) in a unsorted list (view Screenshot). A sort function or a standard ...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Future consideration

When DataType detects a DB Type change should show a sign e.g. an exclamation point to indicate the required D.T. refresh

When DataType detects a DB Type change and updates the data in DataType (for instance from Oracle NUM16 to NUMBER) and data in the DataType changed from Integer to Float, it should show an exclamation point to indicate that DataType has detected D...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

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

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana: Built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert needs to take active/inactive memory into consideration

The existing built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert in Instana is unusable and I will be using Turbonomic instead. The below SuSE Linux URL supports this stand as well. SuSE Support: Memory management best practices URL: https://www.suse.com/sup...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration