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Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request for Q Replication Monitoring Support in Instana

Recently, I have been researching and testing Q Replication (QREP). My understanding is that Instana currently does not provide direct support for QREP. However, I believe it would be very helpful if information about the internal state of Q Captu...
4 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Rightsizing for Redshift Serverless

Hi, Currently, it seems Redshift rightsizing recommendation doesn't applicable on Redshift Serverless instances, as I don't see any listed within in our env. Is there any plan to enhance/expand the rightsizing recommendation to Redshift Serverless?
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Enable Directional Control (Outbound/Inbound) for “Related” Relations in Integrations

Currently, in Apptio Targetprocess integrations (e.g., ADO ↔ ATP), when using “Related” as the relation type between entities (such as Feature, User Story, and Team PI Objective), the relationship is automatically displayed as both Inbound and Out...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 1 Future consideration

Have ability to add generic email to subscriptions (same applies to Anomaly emails and ApptioBI reports)

Currently, as a user I can only subscribe myself to a report, usign the email that my account is associated with.I want to be able to subscribe a generic mail list (e.g. cloud-services@synamedia.com) to a report. This functionality ensure that the...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

How to find pool/d-pool name for a dynamic agent, based on a command or SQL query

In order to find out a pool for a given dynamic agent, the current method is to take a dump of all CPU definitions and then search for the existing pool associated with the agent, however in huge environments where adding agents to pool is a frequ...
7 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

IBM supported OpenTelemetry collector for Windows Platform

GlobeLife is a windows platform organization. All of their applications run in Windows platform. They want to send logs from applications both in-house developed or COTS to Instana for best use for analysis. Currently there is a LINUX OpenTelemetr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Apptio Costing:::Data Quality Evaluations tied to detailed use cases from the Value Framework

A challenge when implementing Apptio Costing is knowing whether or not the data attributes you have available from your company's systems are sufficient to accomplish your goals in Apptio. It would be helpful to have a data quality assessment buil...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted