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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...
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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Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

API Support to NCM Compliance Component

NCM's REST API doesn't support the compliance part of the tool. From an NCM perspective, the REST API only works with the "worker" side of the product.
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Monitor external https endpoints

There are components /services in an application which do some calls to external http based services. I can see this calls in the analyze trace view. Is there a possibillity to get an aggregated view how this external service performs? In e.g. App...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

AWS Timestream DB Monitoring

AWS timestream DB monitoring
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Requesting visibility of NICs under windows teaming

When viewing Windows server with NIC teaming, sometimes it is necessary to know what ports and NIC cards are represented by the single logical connection.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Service Designer to add example json payload while designing service in CAM Service Composer.

This requirement is being asked by Citi customer , where in they want to view the example json while ordering services from MCMP. To enable this the Service designer must be provided an option to add an example json for ordering while composing th...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Message bus probe to extract keepTokens from HTTP response header

Corian Transcend REST NorthBound Interface(TRNBI) integration using the message bus probe Message bus probe to extract keepTokens from HTTP response header For this integration the keepTokens need to be extracted from HTTP response header.The toke...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

TADDM discovery & PKI authentication support for RHEL8 with FUTURE cryptographic policy

TADDM discovery and PKI authentication support required for RHEL8 servers with enabled FUTURE cryptographic policy. FUTURE cryptographic policy enforces rsa-sha2-512/256 for public key authentication and the normal host key exchanges during an SSH...