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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 Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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License consumption split on Windows, Linux, DBs, etc in Turbonomic

It is good to know how many licenses we are spending on each category and will have better understanding of profitable utilization on them
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 4 Delivered

ASM Jobs that hit the max_capacity of 10 should pend and then retry, rather than go to Failed. (On prem version and possibly cloud version too)

We have a lot of VMWare observer jobs on ASM 1.1.16 on prem that occasionally hit the max_capacity value set to 10. The jobs go into a Failed state and never restart unless manually restarted. ASM should have a Pending or Waiting state and retry t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

DB2 Log_space percentage monitoring.

In this use case the customer Julie Yates wants to monitor log_space from her DB2 servers based on percentage. Since her team has multiple DB2 servers and the log_space may differ from one database to another, the ideal monitoring for this metric ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Delivered

Set weekly maintenance window

currently i am only able to set a maintenance window from one date to another for example. 10.03 8:00 to 10.03 9:00 i would like to have the possibility to add a maintenance window every tuesday from 8:00 to 9:00 or another time. I did not find a ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

Improve Redisson support for Java apps

Improve Redisson support for Java apps. By Github stars, Redisson is the most popular redis client for Java apps (amongst others like Lettuce and Jedis). However, Instana stopped supporting Redisson some time ago: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/insta...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Extra function for auto approve storage "Move volume" actions

we would like to make more use of “auto approve” our storage moves actions But ideally we would like the actions to prioritise certain smaller VMs first and also only move larger VM’s between certain times. An initial thought would be to create a ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

Add visibility into/present RFH2 (MQ/ACE) header elements in call analysis

RFH2 can contain arbitrary information in the form of xml element, which may be of interest to track/find specific messages (calls) based on whatever the client choose to put in the RFH2 header. This could give us an even greater advantage when sp...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Delivered

Policies relating to a VM should always show under policies for an entity even if not active - ideally with the related schedule.

If I, a customer, attach a policy schedule to a policy (often by accident instead of an execution schedule) it is not easy to find. I am trying to understand the behaviour of a VM, so I got to that VM and look in the policies tab. I THINK that the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Rate of Resize should have default of 3 High.

Make the Default Rate of Resize 3-High. Currently for on-prem the rate of resize has a default value of 2-Medium. This means that for both upsize and downsize recommendations – the action suggested is only 25% of the way to the optimal desired state.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

PowerVC sensor

Instana already has the Openstack sensor. Although it can help to discover and observe part of PowerVC, the diagnostics of the PowerVC compute instances are missing and cannot be monitored. Also the pHMC sensor does not cover the same functionalit...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Delivered