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Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Add TADDM support to discover RHEL version 9.2 targets

The GA Release for RHEL 9.2 was May 2023. We are already doing the preparation to deploy it in our environment, and we need to qualify TADDM discovery on RHEL 9.2 targets.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

Use portworx for DB2

Today it is necessary to use local storage support for DB2 while all other PODs use Portworx. Apparently this is due to performance limitations. I dont believe this is a valid solution as this adds more complexity to the system while removes featu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

AIX - Add additional memory insights

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows is memory consumed. It doesn't show any other memory metric trends (like paging, swap, etc.). Having this insight is key to us migrating to IBM Instana from IBM APM, which does show the...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Add Support for Nokia Router 7750 SR

device does not appear to support the standard entity mib, the entity agent is not able to fetch the required containment data that is present on the enterprise mib.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

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
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Cisco IWO API support

Support for API similiar to Turbonomic in order to report on costing, request approvals, automate workload exclusions, syncronize scheduling and other pipeline automation.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Delivered

Zabbix Events connector on Watson AIOPS (AI Manager)

We are doing a project with Zabbix as source for our Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1 platform and only could get the metrics for anomalies detection using the Mediation Pack as alternative component, but that will not cover getting the events from...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered