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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?

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Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

AWS Lambda ESM Support

Currently, the NodeJS instrumentation for AWS Lambda only supports CommonJS modules. As of earlier this year, AWS Lambda supports ES Modules which bring a variety of benefits. Because of this, we're having to manually trace NodeJS lambdas.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Delivered

ER to add the number of vCPU as a filter in the "Cloud Instance Type for Scaling under Scaling Constraints/Policies and the filter for "Memory capacity" does not seem to work

What is the desired customer use case?: See screenshot attached The customer is requesting this ER to add the number of vCPU as a filter when it comes to select "Cloud Instance Types" for Scaling under Scaling Constraints/Policies. Also the filt...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Delivered

Relative deviation for custom events metrics

There should be a functionality to define the relative deviation instead of absolute deviation when creating custom events. For example, when we create a new custom event for "Entity - Application" and "Metric - Call count", we don't want to choos...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

Don't aggregate different SQL statements or always do it in the same way

A part of my application makes a series of SQL calls (4 inserts and 2 updates, on different tables). I want to monitor how many times the first of these calls is made (or the whole series, it's equivalent) for business and application performance ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 7 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are trying to set up a PoC for Instana. The customer has Oracle Linux which they say is basically RedHat Enterprise Linux. Do we have the capability to set up an on prem backend with Oracle Linux?
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Delivered

Fix hostname issue as per CASE TS009045242 - VI agent Event processing sending wrong hostname on Expire event

Fix hostname issue as per CASE TS009045242
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

AWS Timestream DB Monitoring

AWS timestream DB monitoring
over 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Delivered

SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

TADDM discovery & PKI authentication support for RHEL8 with FUTURE cryptographic policy

TADDM discovery and PKI authentication support required for RHEL8 servers with enabled FUTURE cryptographic policy. FUTURE cryptographic policy enforces rsa-sha2-512/256 for public key authentication and the normal host key exchanges during an SSH...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered