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TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Future consideration

Custom dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Improve readability of Component Comparison results

Configuration Comparison is essential capability of the TADDM product. However, the result that is generated when using this functionality is usually full of 'Last Stored Time' results - these occur for every comparable component because they are ...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Password expiration process for Netcool Omnibus

The Netcool Omnibus does not have password expiration policy or feature for FID that resides in Object server. At present, password is changed by ISA team member who belongs to “Administrator” or “System” group “. The ISA team member shares the sc...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

TADDM scan support for cygwin 3.4.9

As we tested, for now TADDM is supporting scan of hosts with cygwin only to version 3.0.7. But there is a security issue with this version, and the customer's administrator needs to use cygwin newer versions, for example 3.4.7 or 3.4.9. I think th...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to globalize endpoint mapping

The default rule for determining http endpoints: "Use the first url segment" is insufficient for us in many areas. There are two ways to override this: 1. Creation of a large number of additional rules with endpoint definitions in the Instana conf...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 4 Not under consideration

add floating border in UI

When viewing a call in Analyzing > Call, lets say a DB call lots of data regarding the query will not fit the right hand window. I know that you can hit the "Copy" button or use the slider in that frame but I want to do a screenshot with both C...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration