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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 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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Suport for monitoring FusionAuth java-http

We are asking for suporting this technology, java-http, used by this fusionAuth distribution, https://github.com/FusionAuth/java-http/tree/0.1.12. Currently, the JVM is monitored, but the related calls are not registered at traces, which would be ...
6 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Allow WebGUI Severity icons to be changed in OCP-NOI

To allow the functionality already present in the on-prem edition
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Allow flash time for EventViewer to be configured

The below properties in the <user>.nova files are applicable to AEL only ael_user_properties_flash_time:400 ael_user_properties_flash_brightness:0 ael_user_properties_flash_enabled:true ael_user_properties_notify_flash_icon:true The Event Vi...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 4 Planned for future release

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Operations Insight - Create Patterns with Override config (NOI Related Events)

We would need to be able to create patterns when we override the Event Identity in the advanced tab of the Create New Configuration in the Configure Analytics portlet. Currently, it is limited to the Identifier column and while it works for certai...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Support of nvp_get function in restriction filters of OMNIbusEventReader

We need a policy to be executed by an OMNIbusEventReader when an nvp_attribute has a specific value. At the moment, nvp_get does not work if used in the restriction filter of an OMNIbusEventReader. The policy to be triggered is not being executed ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration