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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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Tracking license usage in a multicluster environment: deep dive page: provide detailed VPC breakdown with worker nodes and pods

We are building up a multicluster environment with several IBM Cloud Paks and are using CP4MCM for management. For IBM software compliance our licensing team is working with the licensing dashboard as central source for audit relevant data on lice...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Extend Instana Server upgrade support version range to support more version jumps

Issue: For Instana server upgrade, there is a limitation that the target version can not be bigger 3 than the current version. For example, Instana 209 can be updated to 211 and 213, but can not be updated to 215. Workaround: To upgrade from 209 t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Creation of subgroups in APM UI

Hi, Customer is intrested to create sub groups under "My Applications" or "Groups" and want to group servers. For Ex: First Level - WebLogic Servers Second Level - Staging Servers, Production Servers Third Level - Under Staging - Service 1, Server...
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Check subsystem availability in WAPL procedure EQQYXJPX

WAPL procedure EQQYXJPX immediately ends when IWS subsystem is not active or available and job step terminates with RC=12. It can be usefull to have the possibility to check the susbystem availability and eventually retry the connection again. Sub...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

Netcool Probe for Huawei NCE-Super NMS using REST API

This will facilitate alarm data ingestion from the specified NMS (Huawei NCE-Super) using REST API NBI protocol. Globe Telecom and other Telco operators which needs this NMS/Orchestrator integrated for alarm monitoring and alarm management will be...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Convert IBM Tivoli Monitoring OS Agent Reports model from compatible query mode to dynamic query mode.

To be able to use the functionalities of the dynamic query mode when reporting with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring OS Agent model and to be able to use it in conjunction with other models to create more robust reports.
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Instana k8s as operator + customer file - Exclude namespaces

It definitively makes sense to provide a mechanism which allows users to exclude entities from monitoring based on annotations and meta data
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Not under consideration

Braccialetto chip magnetic for workers when exit

Braccialetto magnetico chip for workers Evitare without touche and enter workplaces with digitale stamp
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation 0 Not under consideration

Add an "export to CSV" button to extract information from instana

The customer would like to have an option to "export data to CSV" from the analytic view in order to extract data from Instana to generate reports for SLA for their clients.
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Display number of Active Servers for a respective service against time-series chart

Customer would like to monitor their ASG based EC2 instances auto-scaling activity and they want a metric to plot in custom dashboards against the time-series chart. They have attached a reference image which they used to plot in their previous AP...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration