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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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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 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Delivered

Incorporate variance analysis into an inline plan/forecast activity

In our business process, I would like to open a forecast or plan, and based on changes made by the Cost Centre Owner, variance driver capture is triggered/becomes mandatory based on the changes made going outside a set tolerance. The basics of the...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Add support for GCP VM matching in Servicenow App

Support for matching AWs, Azure, VMWare and Hyper-V VMs exists today in the Turbonomic Servicenow app. Customer has a requirement to support matching of GCP VMs so change requests can relate to the relevant CIs in servicenow.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Delivered

Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Health Monitoring of Turbonomic

Would like to have better visibility into the health states of the Turbonomic appliance itself. Pod statuses, excessive restarts, directories filling, and a way to ticket on these events through SNMP or another method.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered

Add the IBM IC922 as a supported Edge Node (Server) for the Edge Application Manager

IBM IC922 is the IBM AI inference server running at the Edge but the IBM Edge Application Manager cannot be leverage to deploy AI Models on the IC922 as it does not support it.
almost 5 years ago in Edge Application Manager 2 Delivered

Add functionality to export data dashboard data(in CSV or other consumable format). This can be an export button which outputs a CSV for the Dashboard data.

Add functionality to export data dashboard data(in CSV or other consumable format). This can be an export button which outputs a CSV for the Dashboard data.Currently there is no functionality to do this in the UI.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 3 Delivered

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 1 Delivered

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 7.0

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 7.0 Support
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 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.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered