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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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Insight Packs latest Supported versions Enhancement -Db2 Insight Pack

Supported Versions Db2 9.7 and Db2 10.1 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSPFMY_1.3.5/com.ibm.scala.doc/extend/iwa_extend_db2_ovw.html https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/oala/1.3.6?topic=SSPFMY_1.3.6/com.ibm.scala.doc/resources/insightpack-...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Insight Packs latest Supported versions Enhancement -Microsoft DNS

Can you please provide the information on latest versions supported by Microsoft DNS Insight pack and let us know by what time it can be available . As the reference links provide information on older versions and its not providing information on ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Add "Google Workspace" as collaboration tools for Chatops other than SLACK/MS-TEAMS

This has been a request from customer BPER, that has already bought the solution but doesn't have the possibility to implement Chatops, 'cause they have Google Workspace as collaboration tool.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 2 Future consideration

MCM Cassandra , increase trace retention to 4 days

Our customer from CE needs the retention data of application traces to be 4 days , instead of default 2 days. We understood this is hardcoded in Cassnadra but can not be changed / configured. We are using OCP 4.10.43 + MCM 2.3.28(FP6) TS011304665
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Support for SHA256 and SHA512 authentication protocols (Impact 7.1 SNMP DSA - snmpwalk)

The Customer needs support for SHA256 and SHA512 authentication protocols when using SNMPv3 via SNMP DSA and Impact policies while monitoring Checkpoint devices. In the latest R81 software for Checkpoint, sha1 and md5 protocols are no longer avail...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Include conman/composer CLI from DWC dashboard

Along side the "Designer" , also have the conman and Composer CLI interface from DWC
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS/About specification change of message notification from MDM

User has troubled job management due to mailman down of Domain Manager. Case No : TS001488604.As a result of the analysis, the cause was found to be an overflow of the Domain Manager message file (. Msg).While stopping some FTAs ​​during periodic ...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Custom job flags

Have the ability to put user made flags against jobs on any workastation, in any job stream to be able to monitor these jobs in DWC filtering against this flag. Like the CRITICAL flag, but without prioritisation.
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need to be able to add Dynamic Custom payloads to Alerts

Need to be able to add Dynamic custom payloads to an Alert. Currently, within Instana, you can add Dynamic custom payloads globally. But many parameters don't make sense to add globally. For example, I don't want to add an MQ Queue Name to a java ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration