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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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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param.FilterSQL / param.FilterName as available runtime parameter for SQL tools

In order to limit the action of a tool to the event shown in an event list / event viewer it would be great to have the filter name or even better the filter SQL as runtime parameter available for SQL tools ( and it would be nice to have it availa...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Exact Topology Template must allow deselecting neighbourong nodes

In the exact topology templates while choosing the neighbouring nodes it is vital to allow updating the neighbouring vertex by removing some the already choosen vertex as neighbours. At the moment, topology vertex can only be added and once they a...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Find Topology resources following the arrow direction and render them on page

In topology view, client want to see an ability to view resource with all "child resources" following specific direction arrows. e.g. down arrow (has) and not up arrow (runsOn). Currently AIOps Topology has "Get Neighbours" option which shows all ...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integration to self-service deploy VMs on Red Hat Openshift Virtualization

Our customer has IBM Multicloud Management Platform and are using this for Red Hat Virtualization, but are now testing with positive result self serviced deployments on VMware vSphere. The customer is also running OpenShift and require an integrat...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Monitoring Tibco BW - tracing

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
3 months ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 0 Under review

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
3 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review