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Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

ASM to support for file checksum on SD bulk job from aaionap service

SD bulk sync API should support passing file checksum in header from aaionap ASM should validate that each bulk sync file received from SD matches the checksum Checksum should be optional in API header; if it exists, then perform check, otherwise not
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Persona based get started experience that focuses on workflows to complete users first tasks in order to realize the value and gain confidence quickly.

Specific user use cases addressed so that they can get started quickly around workflows that are most important to them, reducing time to value.
27 days ago in Concert 0 Under review

Application Topology Definition - Add support for missing entity types, e.g. Azure App Services entities

Application topology Definition currently only support the following entity types: Business Application Service Application Component Namespace Virtual Machine Workload Controller Database Database Server Other entity types such as App Component S...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Under review

Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Get logged in user of DASH in JSP widgets

If you want to build connections with other systems, it is useful to be able to correctly identify the logged in user.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review