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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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Tellabs Probe to fetch alarms from EMS through Authentication

Tellabs Probe doesnt support Authentication (Username/Password) properties. Customer EMS allows to fetch alarms only based on credentials.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Cloudflare Workers Tracing for JavaScript

We'd like to be able to trace requests through CloudFlare workers as they act as a gateway and frontend into the rest our application infrastructure.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Node / Other Tracers 3 Future consideration

Adding application Management Functionalities to the Edge Application Manager to manage the resources and applications in the Intel IPU and Nvidia DPU

Intel IPU and Nvidia DPU will be wide used in the future to push the processing from the cloud computing to the edge computing, our idea is to satisfy the needs of the Edge Data Fabric.
about 1 year ago in Edge Application Manager 0 Planned for future release

ability to remove MFA/2FA from users who lost their MFA device

We often run into the situation where the user loses an Instana MFA/2FA device, and to re-enable the user, we have to raise a ticket to wipe the user and re-create the user from scratch. So this can be easily fixed by giving Instana admins the opt...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Grace Period "None" Option

I set up an event to detect JVM Offline incidents and set it as a critical condition, when this is detected an alert is raised and sent to our Teams channel for my team to react to. Following a critical alert we get a grace period alert which is n...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Is a defect

Customer is requesting a mobile application that supports push alert notifications

Customer is requesting a mobile application for Instana that supports push alert notifications. The customer has outsourced support for hardware and OS support, a mobile application would let users simply enable push notifications instead of manag...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

A new field for occurences with the original ADID

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avoid this issue some woradounds are needed and already supported by PIF. PIF (e.g. WAPL) can create an alias occurence ids. However, the o...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Extending the accuracy of the input arrival date time

Workload (dynamic and static) increases rapidly and the end of the CP planning period got hit regularly. To avaid complicated workarounds, the input arrival date time needs a better accuracy - at least to seconds. By increasiny the accuracy of the...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

If I have subscriptions with the same name in different Azure Service Principles, I would like a way to add each subscription separately to the Target Configuration.

When configuring multiple Azure Service Principals as Targets, if the Subscriptions they have have the same name, the configuration will be overwritten by a subsequent win. [1] Azure Service Principals "A" has "Subscription 1", and Azure Service P...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration