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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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group of calls "Without log message"

They want the possibility to group the calls "Without log message" in Analytics.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

SSO and Groups

The idea would be that we configure the dedicated groups in AD and assign them to the corresponding users. Instana would have to use the group provided in the SAML request and map the user to the group within Instana.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Interface types are not distinguished in manual connection configuration

During the configuration of manual connections in layer 1, the problem has been when creating connections in layer 1 and the confusion occurs because the devices in the discovery have the same Display Label in different types of interfaces, for ex...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Scope of the Smart alert are not based on Individual endpoints

trying to group alerts based on individual endpoints
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Removal of temporary files

I have the following feature request:1. if the Instana agent is stopped it should remove its temporary files2. If the Instana agent is started it should remove old temporary files. This can happen if the Instana agent has previously not stopped co...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Mouse over on link or device icon in ncp_gis [NetKitMapWidget.jsp] shows fixed data. Add Custom Fields

the columns in the event or topology list are fixed. All that can be altered is whether or not the current columns are displayed, you can't alter the filter to display other columns. So we need some facilitation or enabled to add user specific fields
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

An option to group calls based on Percentile view in dashboards

The customer would like to have an option to group calls based on Percentile view in dashboard.Business Use CaseIt will be a nice observability feature to have in dashboards to show the calls trend based on percentile view this gives a clear pictu...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Functionality already exists

Grafana Plugin for Monitoring Data

As we expose monitoring metrics related to a business services in Grafana dashboards we would like to add and compose a full service vision integrating also IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management ones
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

Infrastructure metrics in custom dashboards

The customer would like to create views on infrastructure. To be able to do so we would need to configure views also infrastructure e.g. aws ec2 rds hostsUse case would be: As an operational team we would like to build customize metrics dashboards...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

RBAC - Add support for AD Group to Instana Group mapping

The customer would like to manage users by linking AD Groups to Groups within Instana so that I do not have to recreate teams and roles which already exist within Active Directory.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists