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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 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...

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Snmpv3 -add support for HMAC-SHA authentication protocol

When the probe is set to receive SNMP v3 notifications, it is necessary to develop functionality for the probe to support Hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) - Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA) authentication protocol. We had requests from a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improve CNEA Policy UI

the current version of policy UI does not allow to administer policies properly. there is no search, no chance to get an overview, etc. If the system detects a lot of policies, (> 1000) which is most time the case, the UI becomes unusable
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
7 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Creation of a transport module for message bus probe to support GCP pub/sub topic

Require a tool in the Netcool Omnibnus toolbox that can connect to a Google Cloud pub/sub topic to pull events from Google Monitoring that are written to the Pub/Sub topic as a Google Cloud Monitoring Notification Channel. Internal network securit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

SevOne NPM AWS Monitoring to Support Route 53 Monitoring

Today the SevOne NPM doesn't have the ability to collect Route 53 metrics with the AWS monitoring solution
8 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Planned for future release