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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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KubeTurbo helm chart - enable a toleration

Hello, I have an enhancement request for the KubeTurbo helm chart, which is here: https://github.com/turbonomic/kubeturbo/tree/master/deploy/kubeturbo-operator/helm-charts/kubeturbo The ask is to please add the ability to include a toleration in t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Delivered

Kong - Add support for missing metrics for admin token based authentication

According to the url - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kong-api-gateway-open-beta#viewing-metrics the below metrics should be supported. We have observed that the below panels are not capturi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered

Full support for sensors to run under a non-root account

Regarding IBM APM today: - For various company support and security reasons, we have all the agents running under a non-root account on AIX and Linux hosts with limited sudo setup required. Limited sudo setup in the sense where only dedicated full...
over 1 year ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Support of ActiveMQ 5.18

Confirmed support for metrics and configuration data for versions: 5.11.1, 5.12.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.3, 5.15.2.Please consider to support higher versions of ActiveMQ e.g. 5.18 along with springboot 3x. The Request was already raised a while ago but did...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

Subscription to Reports and Dashboards in CT

Ability to subscribe users to a CT Share/Email report similar to the BI subscription options.     
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Delivered

JVM: Add special group permission which would enable/disable users to run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump

Hello, Currently, any user that can view infrastructure map and particular JVM (Host -> process -> JVM) can run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump. This might cause problems in production environment if used irresponsible (it might cause slow...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

Probable Cause Calculation

Need a telecom grade probable cause calculation. The current probable cause calculation based on keyword and probable cause count doesn't work for the project, as our alarm summary can't be based on NLP, the summary is very specific to telecom eve...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

NCM Driver Support for Nokia 7250 IXR-e

Currently there is no driver available for Nokia 7250 IXR series https://www.al-enterprise.com/-/media/assets/internet/documents/ale-hybridpol-nokia-7250-ixr-e-interconnect-routers-datasheet-en.pdf . Would like to have a driver available for this ...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered