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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

HAproxy reload is supported

Whenever HAProxy gets reloaded (because rules changed), the HAProxy process will get a new PID. Instana at this point will record the HAProxy as a new instance and this loop will continue over and over. Could we get this fixed?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Remove or restrict ncw_admin role that is required for Scope Based Event Grouping

As per IBM documentation, ncw_admin role from Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI has to be granted to the users who want to use Scope Based Event Grouping. However, this provides higher privileges to the users unnecessarily. It allows users to update/modify s...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

MCM Addition of ISM agent to monitor DNS, SNMP and Apache through HTTP

In our environment, we are using APM v8 and monitoring DNS, SNMP and Apache (via HTTP) using ISM agent, we will be upgrading to MCM soon and will be monitoring the same processes.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

IIB ACE abend, dumps and syslog monitoring through Instana

We would like to monitor IIB ACE system logs, abend and dumps files through Instana remotely. Could you please provide this feature.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

To add new parameter which will not record all of http parameter by Instana

We would like Instana to add new parameter which will not record all of http parameters by Instana. Because according to our checking with your team, it seem that there is no a parameter which can exclude all of http parameter by Instana. The purp...
almost 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

To hide confidential information on Instana's analysis screen

When we are using Instana, currently Instana is displaying http request as below."POST / api / v1 / users / 123456789 / XXXXXXXXX" To hide confidential information, is it possible to display "POST / api / v1 / users /" on the analysis screen? And ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team, We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please: We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not I have researched the options provided out of the box by Inst...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Grant creator of the Application the Access Application Perspectives for created App

When a user with limited access tries to create a new Application Perspective, the application perspective gets created, but the user does not get added to the Access Scope, for the newly created Application Perspective. Expected behaviour: that t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1

ITM Summarization and Pruning Agent should verify TEP Server connection at start-up

After start-up the S&P Agent does not verify the TEP Server connection until the first schedule execution time. Until that point the "TEPS Connectivity" attribute is indicated as "No" and generate a situation event until the first execution ha...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration