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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
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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Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Add node_module prom-client to synthetic-pop-javascript-playback-engine

Intro: This idea, makes alot of sense for people that wants to use synthetic checks to query a prometheus endpoint. Implementation from your side is simply add the prom-client module in synthetic checks pods. Description: If you add the prometheus...
4 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Provide a "performance per watt" metric for environments

The idea of a "performance per watt" metric for hardware environments - particularly x86 platform - would be a good way of distinguishing between server types at a fundamental sustainability level. I suspect the metrics needed for this are already...
23 minutes ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Submitted

Change the Memory Setting in "Host Templates" to Gigabytes rather than Megabytes

Due to the size of memory in all hardware now having the memory setting in megabytes takes some additional time to work out as have to calculate the exact MB amount when converting from GB in machine. Would be easier to have the memory amount sett...
28 minutes ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Submitted

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
about 5 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
3 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
4 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

The VMware Target should have the check box just like the Dynatrace Target (Collect Tag Information)

Right now if the same tag comes in from VMware and the APM target you're going to get duplication. Let the customer decide if they want the duplication. I recommend that the default value is YES. The other option is to have smart logic choosing wh...

Instana is really good at monitoring as observability of Kubernetes. But its capability is only focusing on Pod as Kubernetes deployment not as K8S CronJob that is so different.

Instana has plenty of built-in Events for Kubernetes Monitoring. However, some built-in events only suit Pods as Kubernetes deployment, not Pods as CronJob.Instana built-in Event : "Kubernetes Pod condition status" generates Critical Issue in the ...
11 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

AWS VPC Flow Logs Collector

Customer have application running in AWS Cloud and would like to have visibility of all traffic within VPC of all servers including Kubernetes cluster
5 days ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration