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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...
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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RBAC and specific role behavior for "agent management"

- Allow users to read the agents-list while not able to change loglevel or even reset/update every agent they like- Allow users to view configuration while not being able to change it (i.e. show AP configuration but not alter it)- Allow users to s...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

Time slicer

In some situations it is more practical to have a time slicer. The purpose here is to fix the relative time (i.e. a week) but move the slicer over a timeframe to look at data from a week with various start dates.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Configure maintenance flyouts

User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Application Perspective: Sorting by infrastructure

Currently it is not possible to sort the table in infrastructure-tab of services and APs by the first column
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name. I
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Dedicated Juniper and Huawei telnet agents to collect and process OSPF data

Our customer have a need for specific Juniper and Huawei OSPF disco agents, because right now OSPF data for this vendors collected not fully (for example missing connections if OSPF protocol configured on a subinterface rather then on interface).
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Gateway for Message Bus - support for custom omnibus tables

The gateway for messagebus should allow any (custom) table of the objectserver to be used as datasource for reader component, not just alerts.status
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

SAML2.0 Integration for DWC and CLI

Provide integration with SAML2.0 for DWC and Remote CLI to enable authentication through our organisations Single Sign On
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 3 Planned for future release

Snmpv3 - notification for unknown EngineID

It is necessary to develop functionality so that the snmp probe identifies snmpv3 traps, for which EngineID isn't set in the config file. And for that traps, we need the probe to send a notification that informs us to update the config file with n...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration