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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.
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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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Authentication with OMNIbus jconnect only supports passwords up to 30 characters

Customer is using the ObjectServer for authentication of users logging into WebGUI/DASH. The password for the users is coming over an LDAP-integration of the ObjectServer. For users that do not have OMNIbus client libraries and due to password siz...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 6 Not under consideration

Have a simple interface for bulk-adding targets

When adding new features, like initial install of multiple vCenters or adding Databases to an existing installation (pretty much any type target that may have multiple entities), on the "add target" screen have the option to select a CSV file for ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

Enabling Java 2 security should not break the application

Based on Visa Security policies we have to enable Java 2 security. However, enabling Java 2 security will break the JazzSM/WebGUI application. All the icons will go missing after logging into WebGUI. IBM has provided a workaround to add the below ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 7 Planned for future release

Consider disabling file serving and directory browsing (fileServingEnabled & com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing)

According to Visa Security policies fileServingEnabled property should be disabled on all the /WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi' file(s). This property is managed by global property which is com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing. If this is set tr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to click out of an "x-able" box by clicking in a greyed out part of the window

It'd be nice ux for you to be able to click in any of the grey areas and it'll close out the window you had open. the x still exists as another option to click out of a config window. if there are changes when a user clicks out of the window, then...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana. Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus EIF SDK should support Windows Server 2022.

We plan to use Log File Agent & Netcool EIF SDK(posteifmsg) under Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition in Oct/2022. Log File Agent is supported now, but EIF SDK is not yet supported now. Please support EIF SDK for Windows Server 2022. ______...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

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