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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 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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Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Java profiling for windows OS

It gives developers continuous and historical code-level view of application performance that is essential for locating CPU, memory allocation and I/O hot spots as well as latency bottlenecks. Benefits anyone who is hosting Java on windows machine...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

To integrate IBM tivoli monitoring with BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty

how to integrate IBM tivoli monitoring with BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty by using (any of the integrate ITM to BMC Helix or Moogsoft or PagerDuty by using (any of methods like REST API, Webhooks or any other)
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show the cost of deployments prior to deploying infrastructure similar to Terraform Enterprise.

One of the things missing from the developer workflow is the ability for developers to see the cost of their deployments prior to them executing the pipelines. Terraform enterprise and Infracost provide a solution to this.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Updates on multiple Policies - Currently only 50 records selected for SelectAll

We are not able to update multiple policies at one time. If we need to enable/disable/archive of policies, currently only 50 is selected at a time. Need to provide option to select more records (ideally SelectAll should select everything in the li...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Remove couple of drop down options in MWM

Need to remove the "!=" and "not like" drop down options from the out of the box MWM selection.. users have mistakenly used these options to create MM so it has suppressed all the alerts coming into the system. To avoid these mistakes in the futur...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review