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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...
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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NOI- on-prem analytics Group and Role Management

NOI - on prem analytics - requires better and more granular level of roles/permissions management. Currently, whoever is granted ncw_analytics_admin Role can create/modify/delete any Configuration scans or Related Event Groupings or Seasonality E...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ITNCM performance improvement

change required in ITNCM to deal with the disrupted DB connections, stuck threads, slow performance in GUI
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Planned for future release

request with "override depencies"

Today it's not possible to stop a resource that has a stopAfter relationship to an online resource without touching this resource. In SA z/OS you can create requests with parm "Override Dependency". Then, TSA ignores all depencencies.You would lik...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Fix Message Bus Probe Inability to Handle Multiple Topics

When the Message Bus Probe is connected to multiple topics and a single topic has corrupt data, the probe fails for all topics, rendering the entire probe useless. This forces us to create separate probes for each individual topic and separate pro...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Oracle Service Names

Discovery Oracle database service names. Discovery the various service names for each database discovered. This information is used by many applications in the connection strings and can be used to build out dependencies and discover configuration...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Planned for future release

A new JBoss 7 Sensor dicovery

The current JBoss7 discovery in a managed domain, when an environment is discovered for the first time, it expected to start with the discovery of a host, which acts as a JBoss domain controller, and then it is possible to run a discovery of domai...

Make FTAs secure - fix conman security gaps

FTAs include conman which can submit ad-hoc commands to other workstations with the sbd command under the scope allowed by the local security file. A compromised FTA may modify its own security file at will and submit any commands to other worksta...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Custom keyword for ELK

I would like to have the possibility of changing the keyword that Instana uses when redirecting to Kibana The problem is that Instana uses keyword that Kibana does not find, so when redirecting no machine is found.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Manually deleting specific traces from an application

We had a security incident at Instana, we found sensitive data in the traces of an authentication application. We are looking for a way to manually delete these special traces.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Log rotation for cockroachdb

Configure on the rolling of logs under /var/log/instana/cockroachdb as its been consuming a lot of space since we implemented the backend server. We need something in the configuration where we could provide details on how long these logs needs to...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration