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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 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...

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Release markers on Custom Dashboards

when working with Custom Dashboards I want to have an indication when changes happen in order to analyze my data around a focal point. For this I would like to have release markers also in the Time Series widget on Custom Dashboards.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

Option to disable the fragmentation of tables present under tempdb database

Related to PMR case number TS008818511 The problem is locking on the “tempdb” due to checking the fragmentation of a table or view Per customer requirement, the data collection of only fragmentation should be skipped for tempdb database.
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

RabbitMQ queue consumer count

Consumer count per queue is missing, its a critical metric for properly monitoring RabbitMQ and would be great to see next to the message counts.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 7.0

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 7.0 Support
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 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 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 2 Delivered

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

ASM HP NFVD Listener observer to support new version of the LCM messages

HP NFVD is getting updated to new version of the LCM messages and same need to be supported by HP NFVD observer to receive and process the message and load into the ASM
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Support to Monitor Oracle RAC

Hi, Instana currently doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC Instances either by Remote or Local configuration. Many cutsomers are having Oracle RAC Production Instances. Also Oracle monitoring is limited to configure OracleSID. Need to extend to s...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 10 Delivered

User preveilages on Events and Alerts

We need to know how to manage Permissions for user/group for: User able to create event on his infrastructure scope / zone. it means that user can create event with threshold for cpu for example on his authorized host zone ONLY. and he can not see...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Have a way export the Action Detail screen into a PDF document

It is good that we now have direct URL that can lead to individual Action Detail page. I will suggest we add a function to allow user to download/export the Action Detail page into a PDF document. This can be implement by ... 1. add an export butt...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered