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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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Enforce Auditing justification and reporting in all interfaces, not just DWC

In 9.4 the ability to enforce the addition of a justification and a change/incident record number (from ServiceNow for instance) to all plan and database changes was added when these actions originate from the DWC. No equivalent ability to enforce...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Hide authorization token in alert channel header value

Please provide an option to hide the value field when there is a token inside for security reasons. You will find this in the alert channel header area. Details please find in the attached screenshot.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use SSO/SAML over Azure Cloud with Dynamic Workload Console

We are currently using DWC 9.5 FP5 and would like the capability to use Azure SSO/SAML for authentication of our user groups. We were able to get pretty far in the process in that, we could: Enable SAML 2.0 via the server.xml file Connect to our S...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enable SSL on Objectserver IDUC port

IDUC traffic is not secure. Currently Objectserver IDUC port listening parameter only give possibility to set port number, without SSL. It should be option the same as objectserver port (4101 SSL) for IDUC communcation
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ESTIMATED END of a critical chain in real time

Currently the CP does not update in real time the ESTIMATED END of a critical chain. Considering that we now use the 'CRITICAL JOBS' panel as the only forecasting tool for what concerns the conclusion of critical batches, having the information re...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add "Google Workspace" as collaboration tools for Chatops other than SLACK/MS-TEAMS

This has been a request from customer BPER, that has already bought the solution but doesn't have the possibility to implement Chatops, 'cause they have Google Workspace as collaboration tool.
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
11 months ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 2 Future consideration

MCM Cassandra , increase trace retention to 4 days

Our customer from CE needs the retention data of application traces to be 4 days , instead of default 2 days. We understood this is hardcoded in Cassnadra but can not be changed / configured. We are using OCP 4.10.43 + MCM 2.3.28(FP6) TS011304665
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration