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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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Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Variable handling - configurable per tab or global

Variable handling in DI is very limiting having variables that apply to all tabs in a report. Not only is it restrictive but can also be confusing with different variable types and data it applies to (especially with flow). It should be possible t...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Add support of TSRM Gateway for Maximo for IT

Maximo for IT is the successor of the current version of IBM Control Desk and needs to be supported with the TRSM GW which allows incident creation and synchronization. The Target Maximo for IT minimum version is 8.1.4 (as part of MAS/Maximo Proce...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Support logical groups of resources to allow actions to be sequenced

Add support for “Logical group names” function that Park My Cloud had. logically group resources together that allow me to then sequence the order that groups of resources are stopped and started.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

ITNM agents/stichers to discover Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) data

Today FEX information that can be obtained from SNMP requests from Cisco devices is being ignored by the official IBM discovery agents and stitchers. Since this is official, standard data from Cisco devices, I see as counter-productive to have cus...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review