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More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Functionality already exists

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts (Latest feedback from https://automati...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Monitoring Artemis MQ with Instana

Dear IBM Team, We utilize extensive queuing for our applications and are planning to transition to Artemis. To ensure seamless monitoring, we would like to integrate Artemis MQ with Instana. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards, Meghraj Ram...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Redis db integration issues with instana

NatWest are trying to enable in-depth metric monitoring for the redis instances we are using from IBM by referring to this document, we observed the challenge "Monitoring of Redis Sentinel and Redis with TLS/SSL enabled is not supported." as our r...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Smart Alert - grouping/summary/templates

A function of other APMs that I've used is the concepts of summaries and group alert copy or alert templates. Summaries - In cases, when memory, CPU and or filesystems alert they do so together which is a single event. With a summary structure, wh...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Request to consider the automation of Check and correct the permission of <Default User> user id in Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

For Kyndryl, there is a requirement from IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) - Annual Review for Technical Specifications with NO CIS Benchmark, it is required to automate the following operation for <Default User> on TEPS:"Deny the following privil...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Functionality already exists

Total Bytes Received not to be reset

We need to capture the total bytes received by an MQ channel. BytesReceived parameter in MQ gives us just that. However , when ITCAM collects it ,it resets it per interval which is 5 minutes by default rendering the parameter unusable. Please eith...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 3 Functionality already exists

Add field "IP Address" in comparison table

If there is a field displaying the IP address, it will be more convenient to identify the host. It's best to provide users with a way to customize the table using the provided field selection.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists