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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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Use portworx for DB2

Today it is necessary to use local storage support for DB2 while all other PODs use Portworx. Apparently this is due to performance limitations. I dont believe this is a valid solution as this adds more complexity to the system while removes featu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x

According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

WebSphere Java metrics obtained directly from the Dynatrace probe

Turbonomic Dynatrace probe does not currently support Heap and GC metrics specifically for WebSphere. The supported method for collecting this data is through the native WebSphere probe. If the Dynatrace probe support WebSphere metrics fully then ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

From the “Instana trial” start mail, make access to “Instana dashboard” easy to understand.

The problem in this case is that when a customer applies to use “Instana trial” and actually tried to use it, they do not know where to access it. The contents are as follows. Follow the link below to apply for access to the 14-day Instana trial. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Delivered

Cisco IWO API support

Support for API similiar to Turbonomic in order to report on costing, request approvals, automate workload exclusions, syncronize scheduling and other pipeline automation.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Delivered

Link Description details on link focus in Map

In SevOne Maps, when focus on link customers are interested to view more details w.r.t Link like Link Description, Link Name, Link Speed etc along with InOctet and OutOuctets that are available in SevOne.
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Delivered

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
11 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Zabbix Events connector on Watson AIOPS (AI Manager)

We are doing a project with Zabbix as source for our Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1 platform and only could get the metrics for anomalies detection using the Mediation Pack as alternative component, but that will not cover getting the events from...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered