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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 Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Allow HTTP actions to be created with insecure API endpoint

When creating a HTTP action, if you enter a API endpoint that beings with just http, not https, you get the following error message: "This field must be a valid https URL or start with a parameter of type 'string'. Either allow http endpoints (ver...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Improve customizability of resource management UIs to serve as landing page for specific operators / business personas

The resource management pages should provide more customizability to show different data types and KPIs relevant to specific operators / business personas / application owners. When you are viewing an application/service in the resource management...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Launch directly to resource management page from login for particular service views

Users should be able to set preferences for the first screen they see after logging in to CP4AIOps. End users may want to go directly to the resource management page or a customized dashboard that shows them high level information about the status...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Jobtype Job Stream Submission flag optional

Verify the possibility of Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Job type Job Stream Submission flag optional. We currently have customers using version 9.4 and have set this option which is default when creating new jobs. From version 10...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana grouping in Analyze Calls for Smart Alert Event by blueprint template

If you jump from smart alert event to analytc by clicking on "Analyze Calls" the predefined grouping seems to be defaulted to 'by endpoint'.It would help a lot if grouping would be done by templated blueprint criteria.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 5 Planned for future release

Filter alert viewer on resource groups created in resource management

In CP4AIOps, there is no way to filter the alert viewer in the Alerts page on resource groups created within resource management. Customers would like the ability to provided filtered alert views on just specific applications that certain personas...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support sensor for enterprisedb (EDB)

EnterpriseDB (EDB) is IBM's strategic direction for Postgresql databases. Many IBM solutions including watsonx, IBM Cloud Paks/Foundational Services, and more will be using EDB going forward. EDB is also a strategic direction for IBM as we are an ...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling Oracle

this is usefull as 1 sec graularity for DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS will rise license issue in ORACLE. To add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling ensure customer not to breach ORA license as Instana Agent Remote login and read tablespa...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Report/Service access based on Parent - Child Entity mapping

Parent-Child entity mapping should allow selective access to services/reports based on the authorized list of child entities instead of providing access to all child entities.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration