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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 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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Filesystem specific statistics

Only these file system statistics metrics are available on the Host level Dashboard: capacity, used, leaked, inode usage. But we need additional statistics too. For examples: Read Calls Percent: Of the total number of calls made to the NFS serve...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Option to export audit logs using mTLS

To integrate Turbonomic audit logs to customer telemetry logging system, we need audit log export using mTLS. Even all the Turbo audit logs are syslog formatted, without mTLS log export, it would be very difficult to integrate with inhouse managed...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Implement multi-factor mechanisms (2FA+) for any authentication

Netcool Products, including Omnibus WebGui as well any IBM tool must adhere and comply to the Security and policy standards and ITSS advises and requests that 2FA is enable for all products
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
7 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Add "CLUSTER" to relation tree for a group

If you create a group, then go to view the group, you can see several options in the tree on the main landing page of that group. Top to bottom, business app > vm > virtual dc > host > dc. There are many environments that design specif...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration