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Create multiple tickets

Would be great if we could create multiple Cloudability Issues as part of rightsizing recommendations at once. Now you have to create these one by one.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 2 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
4 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Implementing the Log Anomaly Detection using AIOps

Hi Team. Customer has following questions regarding the Implementing the Log Anomaly Detection using AIOps. 1. Is there any self monitoring feature available in AIOps UI to monitor the Log ingestion rate like how many log lines are received and in...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Treat proxy installations/upgrades as their own category of install.

At this time, there are two "categories" of installation for RIA/RNA from an internet access point of view: Normal and Air-gapped. This idea is treat installations behind proxies as their own category. The documentation currently barely covers thi...
10 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Optimizing the VM Bursting Model

In the bursting model of VMs, I would like you to monitor the amount of credit accumulation and consumption and make optimization suggestions. For example, changing to a model with larger credits or to a model other than a burst model. ■AWS EC2 (T...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / UI & User Experience 1 Under review