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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Needs more information

Update TADDM HACMP Sensor to be able to discover HACMP versions 7.2+ on AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above..

Currently deployed AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above use HACMP v7.2+. The HACMP sensor in FP11 only supports version 7.1 according to TADDM documentation and is not getting triggered when HACMP version 7.2+ is running on the server.
3 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Under review

Access Point White/Blacklist for the WLCCollector config.

Similar to how we can disable aggregations and stations in the config files for WLCCollector, we could make a new flag for AP_WL (Access Point Whitelist) and AP_BL_ALL (Access Point Blacklist All). Some great integrations we could do is with AP_WL...
3 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Future consideration

Add a way to be able quick filter NetFlow widget in DI

Not every user is comfortable with editing a widget to create a filter for a Flow widget. Would be great if there was a way to create a quick filter from the main report. For example, for view is Top Applications; provide a way to filter applicati...
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 5 Planned for future release

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Pre-flight data volume measurements for all AIOps connectors

We need the ability to connect to data sources and run a pre-flight check on how much data will be generated by the connection. It is difficult to guess how much data will be generated up front without actually connecting to the data source and se...
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Need ACE OTEL traces to correlate to the proper ACE infrastructure

I'm working with a customer that has deployed ACE with OpenTelemetry tracing on traditional servers. When we diagnose problems and drill into the traces, the link from the trace to the Infrastructure links to the Host Agent for the ACE server. Thi...
2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Planned for future release

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration