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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 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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Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
9 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Kerberos support for TEPS to DB2 authentication

Our company has moved to Sophia for server security management and it does not support the local username/password needed to authenticate to a DB2 database. We have to maintain local accounts and keep them in sync to continue our support of TEPS.
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

twsinst efficiency improvements

Ref: TS011706916 We've noted when upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5, and also when applying fixpacks to 9.5, that twsinst is performing "copy" operations on all the files in the stdlist directory instead of "move" operations. This has led to two issues du...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled.

As per Application security recommendation , It is recommended resolve below mentioned appsec in SCAPM application: Please find below details for appsec in SCAPM. Vulnerability Description in Detail:It was observed that the thick client applicatio...
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Missing input validation - Server side and client-side validation

As part of Application Security, the following Vulnerability has been raised by our security team. Missing input validation - Server side and client-side validation
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Infrastructure Automation needs to collect storage pools for PowerVC

The PowerVC provider creates a storage manager provider, but the underlying API (cinder) only collects cloud_volumes, cloud_volume_snapshots, cloud_volume_backups, and cloud_volume_types. We also need to collect the storage/volume pools capacity a...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Configure Event - Condition

When seeting up Event, when usinn two or more Conditions, we would like have option OR, and under Condition section for Operator, we would like have option "is not", "does not contains"
9 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

regular expression filter on different attributes in group creation

Currently we have regular expression filter for the VM name while creating a group for VMs which makes job easy for bulk selection at a time. It would also be good to have similar regular expression filter for creating group of VMs based on accoun...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

UI based Synthetic Test creation

Currently Instana users would have to write a .mjs or .js script and upload it to run a Synthetic test. But there are many use cases where non tech users (no scripting knowledge) want a simpler UI based method to run a test on a web page. ex: fill...
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Future consideration