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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 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?

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Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Support of nvp_get function in restriction filters of OMNIbusEventReader

We need a policy to be executed by an OMNIbusEventReader when an nvp_attribute has a specific value. At the moment, nvp_get does not work if used in the restriction filter of an OMNIbusEventReader. The policy to be triggered is not being executed ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Add feature that would allow the DWC to capture in a log the last time a user logged into the client.

Security audits are asking for information on when users last logged into the DWC.
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
7 months ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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

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

IBM APM 8.1.4 supports RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4?

Please let us know what will be the ETA for IBM APM 8.1.4 supporting RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

This is tricky

I can't figure out the follow....
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration