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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 Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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A more robust Impact cluster failover is needed as the current heartbeat to nameserver primary is not sufficient

Currently, if the Primary Impact server is "crippled", meaning it is still up but is no longer able to process work, it can respond to heartbeat ping requests from the cluster members, causing the cluster members to think they do not need to assum...
about 2 months ago in IBM AIOps Insights 1 Under review

Support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, able to see Splunk applications through the Instana Portal.

We want monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application in the Instana application perspective. As per the IBM support, there is no support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, you will not be able to see any Splunk hosts or ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Infra metrics for IBM DB2warehouse monitoring

We have integrated IBM DB2warehouse production instance with instana and we are able to access the default dashboard with some metrics. We are exploring the available metrics to configure alerts, but unfortunately we don't see the required metrics...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Create custom Dashboards / Panels with Sythetic results data

Teams want to see the status of single or multiple synthetic checks in custom dashboards for better overview.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Support auto scaling/increment of AIOPs component's PVC claim when current claim is 80% or more of current capacity of PVC storage and automatic End user notification about AIOPs health

We have observed one issue - the Netcool connector stopped processing new Events from ObjectServers. We founded out that pvc netcool-vct-netcool-conn- pvc was full, we extended it to 100mb from original 50mB. This has resolved the issue temporally...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Grouping row in the alert list to support summarising custom view columns

Currently in latest AIOPs 4.5 version , we can added mapping for new custom field/s ( SiteId in our case ) in Netcool connector and and can add same in AIOPs alert view but like Resource , EntityTYpe , Sender column values for parent alert where W...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

New functionality in Tejas NMS for Event Loss occurred/cleared Notification

Dear team, Section 2.2.3.3 of the attached document refers to Notification for "Event Loss occurred/cleared Notification" Following is the description of functionality: NMS will send the Event Loss occurred/cleared event in case of the following s...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review