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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...
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

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When DataType detects a DB Type change should show a sign e.g. an exclamation point to indicate the required D.T. refresh

When DataType detects a DB Type change and updates the data in DataType (for instance from Oracle NUM16 to NUMBER) and data in the DataType changed from Integer to Float, it should show an exclamation point to indicate that DataType has detected D...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI to make it an easy way for the customer to export either 1or all group and policy settings.

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI Use cases: Customers with single instances but no official backup instance Customers with a single Turbo instance whose recovery method may be to rely on a snapshot or network backups. If those are no...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Categorization of recommendations based on Cloud Provider

If we look at any recommendations, the categorization based on cloud provider is present only if the recommendations are of more than one cloud provider. From the image uploaded, we have cloud provider categorization for Azure and GCP as we have d...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

changePassword required for IWS 9.5

In earlier version of IWS/TWS the product supplied a changePassword.sh script that could be used to change the password of the users and made all of the necessary changes to WebSphere etc. In 9.5 it seems a step backwards that this now has to be p...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Request support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Versions - 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4

Request to support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4 Currently tracing shows "Source not monitored by Instana" for 80% of the SOAP calls.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

ALLOW ServiceNow API to allow connection to IWS plugin using a Proxy

TS013706895 I’m currently working on IWS 95.06 to ServiceNow integration using the ServiceNow Plugin. using DWC The ServiceNow instance we use at our site is in the Cloud . We therefore are required to go through the YBS proxy server to connect to...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Change/Enhance client behaviour for Instana EUM to prevent network peaks

With current eum config. potential network issues/overload are possible (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-mobile-app-monitoring-faq#what-happens-for-users-with-bad-internet-or-network-connections )Pl...
8 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Smart Alert should not be closed after 03 hours if still true.

Scenario:We are monitoring an endpont that should raise an alert if no calls received during 10 minutes.The problem is that the Smart Alert is being closed after 3 hours as we learned from Instana support as hard coded "give up" time even though t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

Citrix Hypervisor Monitoring

Thinking if a sensor could be able to consume RRDsCustomers can monitor the performance of their Citrix Hypervisor servers and Virtual Machines (VMs) using the metrics exposed through Round Robin Databases (RRDs). Here is the link for details: htt...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration