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.NET support for AWS Lambda runtime

.NET is currently not supported in the AWS Lambda runtime for agent deployment. We are running a .NET Lambda application which requires tracing to be included in part of an Application perspective.
over 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered

Add the ability to use external-secrets to the config for self-hosted POP

We do not want to put our Instana key in github and would like to be able to use external-secrets similar to how we do with the instana-agent.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

Instead of INSTANA_IGNORE=true, customer would like to have an opt-in approach for monitoring java processes

We have a customer that is trying to monitor java. By default, Instana auto-instruments everything within the kubernetes cluster. The customer doesn't want everything instrumented because it can have an impact on the application performance. I tol...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

RunBook Automation - SSH Encryption Method - Ed25519

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it is much more secure than SSH-RSA Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase security when using SSH with the product. How should it...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

CNEA - Event Viewer - Maintain the subgroups within the main large group

CNEA - In Event Viewer maintain the subgroups within the main large group after the correlating alarms is complete. Current status - it brings in subgroups, but finally it flattens all alarms within the main parent. We need the subgroups intact, s...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Delivered

INM cross domain topology discovery

Global Topology issuing SSH to check ISIS protocol.. Regional Edge routers are using the ISIS protocol but currently IBM is limited to SSH to devices to get ISIS status.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

KAFKA DSA for Impact

Description: We require a KAFKA Data Source Adapter to interface with external and internal systems. NFV vendors are providing KAFKA Message Bus as the interface of choice for new elements and / or applications Use case: Publish and subscribe to t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered