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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 Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Add basic monitoring capabilities for IEAM services on edge devices

In case of problems with the applications/services on the edge devices (deadlocks or malfunctions), IEAM is not able to detect the issue or restart the service if the docker container is up and running. This is a big issue for administrators of th...
over 3 years ago in Edge Application Manager 2 Not under consideration

Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
about 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Allow to change Instana backend port from 443 to non-standard

Our customer is asking possibility to change default port of their K8s Instana backend. They use Instana behind loadbalancer. We found that if we stop Instana operator and specify the port manually at "gateway" config map: location / { return 301...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Agent for Kafka

It would be useful for our Company to be able to monitor Kafka leveraging the existing ITM infrastructure. As a second choice we would consider using the APM infrastructure
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Support recent versions of MongoDB Java Driver

We are using a Mongo enterprise 4.2.24 cluster and configured the mongo driver in our java applications. With a very old driver version like 2.4.0, we can see mongodb traces in our API calls. But with the latest 4.x driver version (we have 4.7.0 a...
8 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

make @instana/aws-fargate working with Elastic search 6.X

Hi currently @instana/aws-fargate is not handling Elastic search 6.X Could you manage this ?
8 months ago in Instana / Node / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Using OR & AND logic together between multiple resources columns based on patterns.

We are using NOI Event Analytics mainly for pattern grouping to minimize the number of alerts or minimize the Incidents/noise on Netcool Console. As per the design, Event analytics allows only OR or AND logic between multiple resource columns unde...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Customise DASH LOGON.JSP

Just want to customise LOGON.JSP with company logo or background image. Also add some HTML Anchor links or buttons to access the external app or internal DASH pages [DASHBOARD] Create banner or maintenance message and special instructions to users...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Monitorng issue:jvm_attach_generic with Istio AuthorizationPolicy

Now,When we use istio Authorization Policy which allow instana-agent request,Errors(Monitorng issue:jvm_attach_generic) occur. Because of "With Istio AuthorizationPolicy enabled, the problem with socket is not ready to listen to command we send fr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Planned for future release