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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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Provide Turbonomic Database Integration for Db2 on LUW

Turbonomics today has the capability to observe database performance and provide tuning recommendations for SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. This functionality should be extended to include Db2 for LUW.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Under review

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Provision to export the topology Data into Excel from Topology Viewer page.

Topology Viewer ASM page has options to export the topology to PNG, SVG Format. Need an option to export the topology to Excel.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
23 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Make release marker selection time based

In the cause of evaluation of usability of release marker information in ci/cd environment we found it would be extremly useful if release marker selection would also optionally timebased.Please note support ticket TS016695080 related.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Need to create an event when MQ Queue Status goes to Get Inhibited status

This is useful to the Production Support team, when the queue status goes to Get Inhibited status, the message flow cannot read the messages from the MQ queue.
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review