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include systemd scripts

Future FPs of TADDM should include systemd scripts for start/stop of the app. systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. It is the default initialization system for current versions of all major Linux distributions.
5 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
12 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

PII Masking is required for collected Kubernetes log message in Instana SaaS.

My customer, LG U Plus started using App monitoring based on the platform, "Kubernetes". Instana agents are collecting data including Kubernetes log messages and sending them to Instana backend SaaS. The issue resides in Logs collected and saved, ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

To offer TADDM WMI extention update as a .msi file to simplify automating deployment in environments where the autodeploy feature is not an option

With each TADDM Fixpack, an updated TADDM WMI extention is offered. This WMI extention has to be installed on all Windows systems to ensure the Session and Windows Computer Sensors continue to work properly. One can use the WMI Autodeploy feature ...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Suppoert Hardware Management Console (HMC) v9 and 10 or higher

I currently have lost the ability to discover HMC as the Unix admins have updated the product to v10. TADDM currenly only supports v8 or lower. Need to support v10+
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

include support for the Kerberos/SAML authentication method

NTLM (Incl LANMAN, NTLMv1 and NTLMv2) was depreciated in Jun 2024 from Microsoft’s official announcement. Microsoft had released a MS Jan patch 2025 that enforce to remove the use of NTLMv1 in Win2025 servers. Microsoft may provide a MS patch to r...
8 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Add Instana API for application event and log messges

We have clients need to get useful info from Instana API, currently there is no API for Application -> Log Message and Application -> Error Message, can you please help to add those APIs?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 2 Future consideration

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations for ELK or others. Use-case, one can have different dashboards for different purposes, currently you can only setup one.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration