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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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Netcool WebGUI - Scope Based Event Grouping Page/Portal

On Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI - Scope based event grouping portal, one cannot re-arrange SBEG policy based on Name, Last modified or Enabled/Disbaled etc. This makes it difficult to manage the SBEG policies created.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Fire an alarm when the number of running servers are below minimum

Customer would want to create a custom event that will fire an alert when the number of running servers is below the minimum expected. Use case: They got 4 running different servers all the time that are autoscaling. This custom event would need t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Ability for fine granular control which Prometheus metrics are captured

To avoid hitting the 600 metric border for Prometheus metrics customer has found it difficult to only use the "metricNameIncludeRegex" value to include metrics. They are seeking a way to EXCLUDE metrics which would be connected to Include with a l...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

B2B Branding

Business to commercial enterprise (B2B) groups are special from business to patron (B2C) agencies, so it makes experience that their advertising, advertising, web site design, and so on. Might be special from B2C versions. Yet, topics are somethin...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Custom Dashboard "Application Health" widget

No description provided
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Ability to connect Prometheus endpoint to applicable Instana entity

When collecting Prometheus Endpoints within Application pods all "prom applications" are listed on the host level. This isn't practible as it is not feasible to link them anyhow to the entity (in this case the pod).
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Page administration for NPI to hide some page that not being used

NPI has multiple pages to display stats for multiple service like WIFI, Load Balancer etc. However this may not applicable to individual customer. Looking for an option to disable some of the pages that not being used as it is misleading to users ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

NPI 1.3.1 user interface to manage user and doesn't need to shutdown service to add/remove/modify users

NPI 1.3.1 doesn't have user interface to add, remove or modify users. There is command utility to di user administration however it requires dashboard to be stopped to do user administration.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Allow wildcarding on custom event metrics specification

No description provided
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration