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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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Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Server and Agent SSL certificate management through the DWC

SSL certificates have always been an important requirement for IWS/IWA. This continues to increase as organisations move toward public cloud infrastructure. This is especially true of cloud kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS & GKS. Most cust...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITNM agents/stichers to discover Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) data

Today FEX information that can be obtained from SNMP requests from Cisco devices is being ignored by the official IBM discovery agents and stitchers. Since this is official, standard data from Cisco devices, I see as counter-productive to have cus...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Allow choose direction of action for Container Platform Plans

If you plan a Container Platform Cluster optimization, it only permit choose scale or not. If it's possible to pick just resize down container spec and/or resize up, users will know the difference between actions. This is aligned with: https://ide...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Variable drop down at the top of a report should be assignable to effect specific widgets or all but a specific widget on the report.

Functionality exists in competing product Grafana, which GTS is trying to migrate from to SevOne-Data Insight. Customer needs the variable drop downs on a report to effect all sections but then when a second variable drop down is selected that sec...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Review default resources for Instana standard

Dear Colleagues, we tried to install Standard Instana in production and demo modes on bare metal server in IBM Cloud and faced issues with logging to Instana backend: * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):* OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERRO...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Need to check number of open files for Instana standard

Dear colleagues, We have a customer with Baremetal server for Instana who faced unexpected Instana behaviour after installing. The problem was that by default servers have default number of open files per user - 1024. It was hard to troubleshoot i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration