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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 Planned for future release

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Shadows jobs' folders

When the name of jobstream definition contains a folder in workstation name or jobstream name, the associated shadow job goes into error state. Could you add these folders, please?
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
11 months ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Pak for AIOPs Policy export/import feature doesn't exist

The customer installed Event Manager (NOI 1.6.8) on Openshift (hybrid deployment). They noticed that it is very difficult to review policies without import/export feature. Below is their feedback: "We discussed about an enhancement request of Wats...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Enhance CP4AIOps to get topology data from Meraki devices

Meraki's marketshare has exploded in serving large enterprises with cloud-managed networking in the last 5 years. Meraki now accounts for 10-20% of Cisco's switching business revenue and it is considered a leader in Gartner's 2022 Magic Quadrant f...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TNPM. Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Add Kinesis Firehose Cloudwatch Metric to AWS Sensor

Hi all, Currently, only Kinesis Data streams but not Kinesis Data Firehose streams are supported by the AWS sensor. Since our platform is also using Kinesis Data Firehose streams, an integration is much appreciated. Thanks in advance and kind rega...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

ASM: ability to define a primary resource in the merge rule

We have merge rules setup for ServiceNow, Kubernetes and docker but when we view the topology, we see the Kubernetes token as the name of the object appended with "master-". We would like the ability to define the source from where the name should...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release