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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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

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Ability to see the full device group path in DI Alerts Detail widget for 'Device Group Name'

Customer is comparing the NMS UI v/s DI in this case. In NMS using the 'Alerts' attachment, when showing alert details grouped by Device Group, the device group name is shown with a full tree path, for example: All Device Groups/IP/Class A All Dev...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

To be able to monitor Nginx and PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Include Target Groups in AWS Monitoring

Hi team, we would like to be able to monitor from SevOne the target groups of the AWS Load Balancers. These groups gather relevant data such as the current status of the LB members so that we can differentiate them between Healthy and Unhealthy.
4 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 3 Planned for future release

Ability to rollback in case that peer-add or HSA-add fails, to mantain cluster integrity

Request is ability to remove all the data added in the peer-add or hsa-add process in case of failure.
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs. We are required to automate cluster build setup and today that is not fully possible as al...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Omnibus Probe for MS Graph API

The EWS API is being deprecated with no further development we will need a replacement for the Netcool Omnibus EWS Probe. MS Graph is the replacement API and we will need a Netcool Omnibus probe for it. The new probe should support a secure authen...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - conditional logic in the runbook/automation editor

Why is it useful? - Right now RBA allows no custom conditional logic to chain together runbooks/automations, which is handy to build end-to-end automation workflow. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of RBA, everyone would be able to build...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI

Provide capability to enable two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI, e.g. AD authentication and SecureID passcode
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release