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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?
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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.NET support for AWS Lambda runtime

.NET is currently not supported in the AWS Lambda runtime for agent deployment. We are running a .NET Lambda application which requires tracing to be included in part of an Application perspective.
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered

allowing Topology Manager to get all the informations about network interfaces of the devices on map imported from SevOne via dedicated observer

It is useful for all the opportunities in IBM that we must propose to customer where Watson AIOps and SevOne should be integrated.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Instrumention module for gorm databases

We understand that for golang database/sql tracing is available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=go-collector-common-operations#how-to-instrument-a-database-connection-created-with-sqlopen). However we use gorm.Open...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 1 Delivered

Support for Instana agent in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) & Azure ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift)

Two major customers wants to monitor CP4I components (API Connect, MQ, ACE, etc.) with Instana, which is supported.CP4I is installed on managed OpenShift in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) and Azure ARO ((Azure Red Hat OpenShift).The I...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Target page used to have search. The new one 8.8.2 doesn't have search. Can we have it back?

For a large enterprise with scores of Azure and AWS and OnPrem Targets, the customer said he needs the search function. This is probably in the backlog. Just wanted to accurately record the voice of the customer.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

Improve the ITNM mustgather script and provide in the code with future fixpack releases

Currently the itnm_data.pl mustgather script is provided in a technote available for download here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/collect-data-ibm-tivoli-network-manager-ip We would like to see this included in the code so that it is available...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Add the ability to use external-secrets to the config for self-hosted POP

We do not want to put our Instana key in github and would like to be able to use external-secrets similar to how we do with the instana-agent.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

RunBook Automation - SSH Encryption Method - Ed25519

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it is much more secure than SSH-RSA Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase security when using SSH with the product. How should it...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Add Repository Parameter for Proxy Artefact Servers

Problem:---------- The current Instana Synthetics Helm chart is using static URLs and paths to the container images. In an Enterprise Context, it is not always possible to access external Docker repos directly. Therefore teams has to use an intern...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered