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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Support for database replication on on premises deploy (MySQL)

In this case we are using the OVA deployment connected to externa DB (MySQL) and the idea is to have the database in cluster mode using group replication to have a better availability of the environment.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Extend thread dump with viable thread details

The Instana thread dump does not contain the following meta information of a thread: Priority (prio): the priority of the threadJava ID (tid): the unique ID given by the JVMNative ID (nid): the unique ID given by the OS Please add these details as...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Java profiling for windows OS

It gives developers continuous and historical code-level view of application performance that is essential for locating CPU, memory allocation and I/O hot spots as well as latency bottlenecks. Benefits anyone who is hosting Java on windows machine...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor IBM Cloud MySQL DBaaS

We're currently missing the ability to monitor MySQL DBaaS hosted by IBM Cloud in depth. Maybe it's possible to task an agent to connect to a remote MySQL database using a agent running somewhere else. We'd like to get some performance stats, open...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Call Alter

We would like the ability to restrict the default level of access for users of Turbonomic, particularly Site Administrators. Before a user can manually execute action of modify a policy, we would like to require that the user receive temporary acc...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Run FlightRadar and Instana Agent together

Unfortunately it is not possible to run FlightRadar and Instana together. This has been confirmed with our Engineering Team.Need a supported way to solve this issue , we already know about the incompatible agent workaround. To resolve the issue, r...
5 months ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper EX Devices with OS version 22.*,23.*

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper EX Devices with OS version 22.*,23.* From the security standpoint Juniper has recommended to move to newer versions of JunOS e.g. 22.* and 23.* and with the older versions h...
5 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 21.*,22.*,23.*

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 21.*,22.*,23.* From the security standpoint Juniper has recommended to move to newer versions of JunOS e.g. 22.* and 23.* and with the older vers...
5 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper EX Devices with OS version 20.*,21.*,22.*,23.* [NETCONF]

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper EX Devices with OS version 20.*,21.*,22.*,23.* The driver(s) need to be able to support the management of NEs which have NETCONF enabled" 1. With automation tools coming int...
5 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration