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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.
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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Deploy custom widgets (via ContentBox) in NOI Full Cloud DASH

We had custom widgets in onprem DASH and we want to use them in FullCloud DASH as well.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.in organizations where security is paramount (which is the majority of companies now) it is a security threat to have Service Accounts where i...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Under review

Get skupper-router in the SaaS product to use a valid cert signed by a public CA for TLS transport during token exchange with on-prem appliance

Token exchange is failing through our transparent Internet proxies because an untrusted internal CA certificate from the skupper-router is being used for both TLS transport and mTLS. The untrusted cert is causing the connection to be reset by the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

The UI needs to handle failed Administrative Data Tasks.

It is quite common for an administrative task that leverages Kafka to timeout and fail. Leaving the task in a hung up condition. The present procedure to clear these issues is running 2 or 3 calls to swagger to clear the condition. These calls are...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Discover Azure Storage Account Soft Delete Capacities

Discovery Azure Storage accounts and their respective soft delete capacities. Based on the soft deleted capacities calculate size of soft deleted blobs providing the ability to save consumption costs for Azure Storage that is not easily visible to...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

NOI Grouped Parent Alarm is not considering MIN FO Alarm Values

We found that the NOI Grouped Parent alarm is not considering the Minimum FO Child Alarm values to populate in the parent alarm fields As per cea_process_ckeyparents procedure , this should be the precedence -- IN CASE MULTIPLE CustomText PROPAGAT...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review