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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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Add md5_hash function to IMPACT

We now have md5_hash() in the Probes and in the ObjectServer. Great! To make full use of md5 hashes, we also need this function available in Impact so that we can create hashes and compare then against those alsready created in the probe / the Obj...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Add support discovery for RHEL > 8

Add discovery support for RHEL > 8, at the moment max version supported is RHEL 8 x86_64, it's needed that you support version > 8. If needed refer to caseTS008987318 Thanks
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

to extract from Azure the fact that a disk is an OS disk or a data disk without needing to rely on a naming standard

this will make it easier to associate different policies associated to the different disk types
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered

License consumption split on Windows, Linux, DBs, etc in Turbonomic

It is good to know how many licenses we are spending on each category and will have better understanding of profitable utilization on them
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 4 Delivered

Extra function for auto approve storage "Move volume" actions

we would like to make more use of “auto approve” our storage moves actions But ideally we would like the actions to prioritise certain smaller VMs first and also only move larger VM’s between certain times. An initial thought would be to create a ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered

Export/Import Application Description

The import fúnction is using the option DBMODE EXPORT/REPLACE in one step, but to split both OPTIONS in two steps is a better solution.This was also confirmed by IBM. We asked IBM if they plan to implement the two step solution also in the dialog ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Email integration with the atlassian status page - Need dynamic configuration to be added as placeholder in email alert notification .

We would like up and down keyword to be send in email subject to integrate instana synthetic monitor with the atlassian status page as the email component only works in that way. Atlassian requirement : https://support.atlassian.com/statuspage/doc...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered