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Allow BYOK for data collection

This would allow client to own, supply and manage their own encryption key, stored in their own Key Management Services. At the moment, IBM/Apptio manage this process protecting the client data. This change would provide additional control over da...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
9 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Campanion operator support at pod level

Customer would like to have companion operator to manage workloaad at pod level. they use git and crossplane to deploy and manage workload.

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Possibility to create (more) interactive Boards at Dynamic Workload Console

To increase acceptance and usability of IBM Workload Scheduler the graphical user interface (Dynamic Workload Console) should be enhanced by the possibility to create (more) interactive boards. At the moment it seems not to be possible to create b...
14 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
about 2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
8 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Include date fields in the Bulk Edit screen

It is possible to edit fields in bulk in TargetProcess by selecting multiple entities (shift-click) and hitting "Edit 00 items". However, date fields (like Planned Start Date) are not editable through this screen. The date fields should be editabl...
22 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Future consideration