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Ability to track Page Transitions & Geography details with automatic instrumentation

Automatic instrumentation provides an easy way to monitor websites with no extra configuration needed on the application/website pages. However, with this approach we are unable to track page transitions and geography details. It would be helpful ...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1

Provide alternative to Multus for Cassandra replication

Bank of America is unable to leverage a Multus network on their OpenShift clusters in order to enable Cassandra replication for georesiliency. Full georesiliency for the datastores is an essential requirement for BofA to bring NOI / CP4AIOps into ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Need API call to run the already configured NFVD load jobs

Its needed by the client to perform LCM takeover during regression testing
5 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Needs more information

Enhance Peregrine Gateway to accept a Change Number when the Ticket Number is not available.

Peregrine Gateway not updating Omnibus events in some cases. We have integration between Netcool/Omnibus and HPSM as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSSHTQ/hpscgw-pdf.pdf Whenever we send some event from Omnibus to HPSM through Peregri...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Adding Connection metrics in IBM MQ Channel while creating Instana Events

Connection metric should be included while defining event for IBM MQ Channel. Giving the user privilege to define event to monitor connections made to a channel.
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Use the more secure Azure Managed Identity instead of SAS token when authenticating SevOne DataBus (SDB) against a Kafka enabled Event Hub

Currently, our SevOne DataBus (SDB) feed is sending to an Azure Event Hub as the Kafka Consumer endpoint. Authentication relies on a SAS token (SharedAccessKey). The use of SAS tokens as an authentication mechanism is proved to be less secure, and...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Events add - ability to add the joblog from a batch job Event Rule in the Event Email that is sent out to individuals

This is useful because customers can see just in their email what the issue in the joblog was.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Needs more information