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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Event handler email attachments

An Action to send an email should allow one or more file attachments.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add support for IWS to work with the Workday ERP

UW Madison is in process of moving some ERP systems from PeopleSoft to Workday. Per IBM case number TS008964802, we have heard that there is no integreation specifically for Workday. The representatives in that IBM ticket recommended that we open ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Cross-domain RCA is needed

One of three biggest telecom operator in Russia is in need of cross-domain RCA for their IBM Network Management IP system. Due to known limitation for number of elements in the ITNM domain, telecom operators have no other option, but to split netw...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Certify Multi Factor Authentication IBM DASH integration with Okta

Default Authentication for IBM DASH using Websphere is not sufficient to protect unauthorized users into system. Enterprises use Okta's web-based, single sign-on (SSO) application to provide a single centralised interface to access third-party p...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

restricting API source IP addresses

Anyone who knows API token can change Instana configuration with using Instana API. For security, I hope that Instana backend should be able to restrict API source IP addresses.
12 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Increase the max observation period for VM Default policy to 120 days rather than the current maximum of 90 days

It would be useful so that we can track more 1 quarter's worth of performance & capacity metrics data. We have application customers with VM's that run hot only once per quarter and would like to see their capacity and performance data coverin...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Not under consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Vmware Agent ITM version 07.30.03.00 up limit table KVM_TOPOLGY

TS008498905 2022-03-30 10:49:26 40 INFO: Inventory.processUpdate: Total count of monitored objects in the environment(10.113.52.212) is 3501. Data collection of Topology attribute group is disabled as it is supported to collect data for the maximu...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration