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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

Support IMDSv2 on AWS

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

while ASM NFVD observer to consume V2 LCM message or from API, If we receive response without vm name name of the vm need to be updated by vm-id

As per standard SLO 3 LCM message format, we are not receiving the vm-name, so we need to update vm-id in the name attribute
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Threshold on the same metric twice within the same

Customers need the ability to threshold on the same metric twice within the same Event. It is VERY common for customers to want to setup two different Events (1 warning and 1 critical). They way they achieve that is something like the following: W...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Process to clean up old entities from active devices

Once a device is discovered bu ITNM, it creates many entities in NCIM database, representing the device, interfaces etc. If any of those entities are not valid anymore (e.g., one of the interfaces is disabled), it is not deleted from the database....
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Tibco EMS Monitoring: Change number of queues / topic

When monitoring Tibco EMS the maximum number of queues or topics which can be monitored are limited to 200. This should be changed to any value the customer might want to choose knowing the possible impact that might have.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Message Bus Probe should expose endpoint to Rules File

Follow up for RFE 126508 / APAR IJ17178:Great that we now have the Sender of the request and that we no longer need to specify a fixed endpoint.But unfortunately, the endpoint (or the full URL) is not available as a Token variable in the rules fil...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

APM ISM performance issue

When an APM ISM agent (on the Linux platform) has a large number of active profile elements (200, 300. etc.), after restarting the ISM agent, profile deployment, or any change of profile elements, the ISM agent takes a long time (2-3 hours) to con...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Enhancement for the quick search feature within the EventViewer

When events are grouped within the EventViewer, you can’t use the quick search to find events. Please have a look at the attached screenshots: eventViewer1.png: Framed pink are alle the events which are grouped underneath the top lovel event. filt...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered