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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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NOI-onprem - LastOccurrence field of Parent not updated by default

On NOI-on prem, in Related Event Grouping, it is observed that the LastOccurrence field of the Parent Event is not updated with the lastoccurrence that of the latest child events in that group. However, in case of Scope Based Event Grouping, the l...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Override the Entity in the Event SDK

We are using event sdk within our OpenShift environment. https://www.instana.com/docs/api/agent/#event-sdk-web-service We are able to trigger events from within a pod, but they come in listed as an entitytype of Host. We would like these events to...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Consider disabling file serving and directory browsing (fileServingEnabled & com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing)

According to Visa Security policies fileServingEnabled property should be disabled on all the /WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi' file(s). This property is managed by global property which is com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing. If this is set tr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Functionality already exists

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Multiple Choice for HTTP Status Codes alert

We were working on smart alert and just want to monitor 501,500,503,400,404 error. But don't see the abilities to add specific codes. Multiple Choice would be grate option to select alerts.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Functionality already exists

LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Hostname details instead of service name in custom event alert?

The customer would like to see Hostname details in custom event alerts instead of service or process names.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists