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Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Resource alerts in Topology

When looking at a resource in topology, we have a tab showing the resource's alerts. Unfortunately, we can only see a summary, severity and the last change. Seeing full details on the alarm, we have to switch to the Alerts Viewer. It would help a ...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Ability to add CR (custom resource) with custom settings.

Reduce Manual actvity during Upgrade / DR / config updates
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Custom quick filters for visual reports also to apply to PNG export

The export could be used e.g., in presentations while now when all data for all items is shown the visual is often too loaded.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Future consideration

Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus EIF SDK should support Windows Server 2022.

We plan to use Log File Agent & Netcool EIF SDK(posteifmsg) under Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition in Oct/2022. Log File Agent is supported now, but EIF SDK is not yet supported now. Please support EIF SDK for Windows Server 2022. ______...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Provision to export the topology Data into Excel from Topology Viewer page.

Topology Viewer ASM page has options to export the topology to PNG, SVG Format. Need an option to export the topology to Excel.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Updates on multiple Policies - Currently only 50 records selected for SelectAll

We are not able to update multiple policies at one time. If we need to enable/disable/archive of policies, currently only 50 is selected at a time. Need to provide option to select more records (ideally SelectAll should select everything in the li...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration