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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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once should be select Parent event without child evnts selected automatically on Alerts Page

In 1.6.9 Event Manager, when ever user selects a parent event it automatically selects the child events. This make it impossible to see the Journal or take action on parent event in the alerts page. User will have to navigate back to the event vie...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Email integration with the atlassian status page - Need dynamic configuration to be added as placeholder in email alert notification .

We would like up and down keyword to be send in email subject to integrate instana synthetic monitor with the atlassian status page as the email component only works in that way. Atlassian requirement : https://support.atlassian.com/statuspage/doc...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Add Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ping-checks: Add option "HTTP-method"

Hello, we are using your ping checks and just want to implement them more efficiently. Therefore it would be very helpful if we would have an option for "HTTP method", e.g. GET, POST, PUT, and so on. And also the option "body" is needed then proba...
over 1 year ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
over 1 year ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Mesaage bus probe support Authetication other than basic

Message bus should support other authentcation like okta other than just basic authentication . We currently have message bus probe to which external system posts alarm to it via webhook . However the message bus probe only accepts basic authetica...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Being able to add AWS observer using IAM roles instead of access and secret keys.

Customers have polices to changes keys every 90 days. it will be nightmare to change observer keys every 90 days. it will would be nice to add AWS observer target using IAM role. This is a must requirement from DISH Networks to do a POC.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release