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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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Automatic policy creation for instance type scale that take Availability Zones into consideration.

Sometimes, we encounter the error 'The requested configuration is currently not supported.' due to the instance scaling action. Example: t3.micro -> t3a.nano Regions where each instance type is supported: t3.micro: ap-northeast-1d, ap-northeast...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Agent Installation: Git-based Configuration needs a way to set a custom CA for Kubernetes-based deployments

When deploying the Instana agent via helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster and utilizing the git-based configuration, there should be a way to update the CA certificates in the container for self-hosted, self-signed Git repositories commonly used in ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Export data from Custom Dashboards

We are using Custom Dashboards to track and improve our metrics, thanks to custom metrics. But because of 7 days retention, it is not possible to track with historical data. The only way we can manage to find is to semi automate the process with t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

IBM JVM Profiler Support

Currently IBM JVM Profiler is not supported https://www.instana.com/supported-technologies/java-profiling/ and it makes application servers hosted on AIX websphere impossible to profile and this is needed feature to optimize java applications
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 5

Netcool Impact - Policy activator to have a scheduled time window, such that policy always runs at a scheduled time.

example: case: 1 I want to activate my policy using policy activator at 8PM IST every day , but if any issues noi-nciserver-0 pod get restarted at 6PM IST and it got up at 6:05PM IST, then policy activator will activate my policy at 6:05PM IST rig...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Will it be helpful if can create instana filter based on OrgID , eventid etc to get TPS for merchant specific

Get the event transaction detail per second for merchant wise
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Enable Smart Alerts for Traces

This would be useful because there are certain scenarios where certain types of data can only be categorized by filters by trace level instead of call level. Currently alerts and smart alerts can only be setup to filter by calls and not trace leve...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration