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Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request for Q Replication Monitoring Support in Instana

Recently, I have been researching and testing Q Replication (QREP). My understanding is that Instana currently does not provide direct support for QREP. However, I believe it would be very helpful if information about the internal state of Q Captu...
9 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Rightsizing for Redshift Serverless

Hi, Currently, it seems Redshift rightsizing recommendation doesn't applicable on Redshift Serverless instances, as I don't see any listed within in our env. Is there any plan to enhance/expand the rightsizing recommendation to Redshift Serverless?
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Apptio Costing:::Content for cost model of modern containerized microservices and API-first architecture

The technologies deployed by companies today are no longer well represented and modeled through a lens of Physical to Virtual machines viewed on a monthly basis, with a VM hosting a single application. While this is the traditional Apptio Cost mod...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Ability to restrict the Rest API to specific user groups and rate-limiting

Currently, the Rest API can be used by anyone with access to the engine. We would like the ability to restrict that access to a specific user group or even source IP address or subnet. In addition, being able to rate limit Rest API calls would als...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Request for Trace Log Functionality

With the current product capabilities, it is not possible to capture logs of user actions. Since operation logs for various configuration changes are not available, it is impossible to identify, for example, who created a business mapping or when ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Need a simple version of Copy command in Alert Viewer to only copy to clipboard what is shown in the view

Copy command embedded in the Raw tab of the Information section in Alert Viewer copies the raw json dump of the alert to clipboard. This involves a lot of data that is irrelevant to the user forcing them to remove the unnecessary information befor...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release