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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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Monitoring WAS in AS400/Iseries

I currently have more than 100 Websphere application servers in as400 and with instanta I cannot monitor them, so I request your help so that they have this need and the collector is created, as well as tivoli monitoring, apm, Icam
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Ability Change the Timezone for the Event Viewer

Hello Team, We have a Global Networking Team that are looking at the events in the Eventviewer but they are being displayed in their local time. We have check the Node timezones and all are being set to UTC by default and We are assuming it is tak...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Client capability for IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager (ASM)/Topology

We need the ability in the ASM to decide if customers can see the full topologies or whether it should be limited to the TSI team only. Thank you.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

OMEGAMON Data Provider support

We are in the middle of a project to rebuild our event management solution. The target architecture should be based on Watson AIOPs and the OMEGAMON Data Provider will deliver data to the Watson AIOps Metric Manager. For this we need the OMEGAMON ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Supported migration path to new OVA deployment

Allow configuration data and historical data to be migrated from one XL deployment to a new XL OVA deployment. This would benefit all users who wish to deploy a newer version of the OVA for security or other reasons and remove the need for a lot o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic memory consumption

In addition to static memory metrics (free, used, swap size, or percentage), there should be dynamic memory usage sensors (metrics such as memory pages/sec, memory paged/unpaged bytes, etc.). These kind of metrics can be used to predict the problem.
about 1 year ago in Instana 2 Future consideration

One problem, one entry on Issue page via Agent API

If I want to indicate to Instana there is somewhere a problem then there is a possibility to make a custom issue via Agent API (http://localhost:42699/com.instana.plugin.generic.event). We use this facility. There is a custom http(s) protocol moni...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / API-C 1 Functionality already exists

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration