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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Host sensor needs to be able to monitor NIC status

Customers need to understand the status of their NICs to ensure that their networking is functioning properly. Currently, the Instana Host Agent only collects the performance metrics of the NICs and not the satus.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Update OMNIbus WebGUI to process ExtendedAttr as if it was Details

With NcKL being moved away from details() and instead using nvp inside ExtendedAttr, we need a way to make that field (ExtendedAttr) human readable/consumable. A fourth tab should be added to an alarm when double-clicked (Information tool), which ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Make Message Bus Probe HTTP Responses more visible in Probe Logs

If the Message Bus Probe receives too large payloads, the sender will get back the HTTP status code "413 Payload Too Large". This is correct, but in the Probes logfiles this is only documented with a warning line "payload to large".
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Have a way to control how many action to send to ServiceNow

We would like to integrate our Turbonomic with ServiceNow for VM right-sizing actions. But we found out that once we turn on that automation, Turbonomic is going to send all (1000+) of actions to ServiceNow ... that is not acceptable as it will fl...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Future consideration

Filesystem specific statistics

Only these file system statistics metrics are available on the Host level Dashboard: capacity, used, leaked, inode usage. But we need additional statistics too. For examples: Read Calls Percent: Of the total number of calls made to the NFS serve...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Nokia Netact SNMP integration - Snmpset operation to set 2 OID's at single execution

Nokia are removing support for their CORBA interface making SNMP interface the only supported solution . As SNMP comes up with risk to lose traps due to packet loss, between the EMS and the probe server, nokia netact comes up with the solution to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration