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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
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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Prevent RESUBMIT job stream plug-in job type to submit same stream multiple times within same minute

We have recently experienced some mailbox.msg corruption issues which are documented under case #TS014467118.It was identified by HCL that the corruption is caused by the resubmit plug-in job type and occurs in memory.We really identified many RES...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon EBS and EFS as a recommended storage of CP4AIOps when deploying it on ROSA

Background: Currently, only Portworx is a recommended storage of CP4AIOps when deploying it on ROSA. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.4.1?topic=planning-storage-requirements#storage_providers We have to consider migrate NOI...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

Acknowledging alert

Currently, when an alert is triggered in Instana, our operations team receives a notification. While this is a crucial step in our monitoring workflow, we find that the process of acknowledging these alerts is not as streamlined as we would like i...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba - No Filtration properties available on subscribing to Event Notifiation

Probe - nco_p_huawei_u2000_corbaUnlike other CORBA probes where we have the option of filtering the alarms while subscribing to the real time alarms/Notification IRP services. nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba doesn't provide any options/properties to subs...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

ITM for Omegamon (TEPS functionality) should support passphrases

ITM 6.3.0 FP7 SP2/SP5 does not support passphrases. Currently ITM limitations are as follows: 1) up to 50 characters 2) For Distributed system, the acceptable characters are as following - For tacmd login those characters are between the brackets ...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 8 Planned for future release

HA DI Server (Just like a HSA vPAS or HSA DNC)

As of right now the DI server is a standalone server. If it was HA configurable it would follow the other SevOne products of having a "hot Standby Appliance" ready to go in the event of a failure and or have the ability to support a VIP IP. Just s...
5 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Add Influx connector for metrics collection

Influx database is timebase database for metrics collection, it is widly use over the globe for store timeseries data. Connector for influx in AIOps will be very helpfull for ingesting metric for anomaly detection.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review