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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Group nodes of a redis cluster in service view

We're using redis-cluster to run redundant scaleable redis services. However calls traced by java instrumentation are not mapped to a redis-cluster but to a specific redis instance. This means that redis calls for a specific redis cluster are dist...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

In the Merge Cluster Plan the wizard does not take the user to the storage actions, desired state, or desired state diameter settings.

When running the the Merge Cluster Plan the wizard doesn't take the user through the options to configure the storage actions, desired sate, and the desired state diameter settings. In other plan configurations these configurations are present in ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

In the Merge Cluster Plan the cluster name should be displayed in the actions, output, and exports.

When using the Merge Cluster Plan only the host name is present in the actions, output, and exports. It would be nice if the cluster name were present in the actions, output, and exports for easy readability and understanding of the data.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

ITM Agent shows wrong OS version in TEP on Windows 2022 platform

ITM monitoring agent V6.3 with SP6 seems to work in recently published Windows 2022 Server OS. However Attribute "Windows Operation System Type" shows wrong OS version in TEP like Windows_2019 for Windows 2022. I remember there was a same problem ...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Automated/semi-automated remediations to address Security and Compliance violations for VMs/Servers

Empower self-healing remediation with low and zero touch for cost avoidance. As a Cloud Admin , I want to be informed about any Security & Compliance deviation in my Client´s environments so I can take the necessary actions to avoid audit iss...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Real time visibility of Security & Compliance posture/state of VMs/Servers

Ensure the clients' environments are managed according to regulatory standards (PCI, HIPPA, etc). Visibility of the posture is the key to enable that. As a Security Analyst (ISA, ISM, GSPM, Security DPE), I need real time visibility about Securit...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Provide and "Enhanced" Executable Job Type to facilitate migrations from competitive solutions (Control-M and AutoSys)

Matches Autosys functionality, eliminates manual effort via scripts, good for scalability, reducing areas for errors Allows user to specify profile prior to job running and before use of Standard/Out invoke Allow for the use of various credential...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

support for template variables

support for template variables in grafana
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Alerting on call drops of less than 30 min

It would be useful for us to have the possibility of being able to create alerts to supervise call drops of less than 30 minutes
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration