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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...
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Update TADDM HACMP Sensor to be able to discover HACMP versions 7.2+ on AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above..

Currently deployed AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above use HACMP v7.2+. The HACMP sensor in FP11 only supports version 7.1 according to TADDM documentation and is not getting triggered when HACMP version 7.2+ is running on the server.
about 1 hour ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Submitted

ITNM Configuration Utility - Extend Database Finder to have GUI configuration

Please extend the Database Finder to have a GUI based configuration so that it's easier to define custom databases, columns and attributes to enable data retrieval as a feed to Discovery.
2 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
6 days ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

Access Point White/Blacklist for the WLCCollector config.

Similar to how we can disable aggregations and stations in the config files for WLCCollector, we could make a new flag for AP_WL (Access Point Whitelist) and AP_BL_ALL (Access Point Blacklist All). Some great integrations we could do is with AP_WL...
about 3 hours ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Submitted

Traceroute Path Tool in LiveMaps | Point-to-Point discovery

We already have a traceroute tool in NMS, which is hardly used. If using the tool in DI Live Maps, you could create logical devices in a path and see which hops between sevone and the device are part of your monitoring. The concept is you would ha...
about 3 hours ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
about 7 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted