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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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Hot-Plugging Memory and CPUs on Virtual Machines (AHV)

Currently a reboot is required on virtual machines running on AHV to hot add resources. Nutanix allows hot add capabilities for CPU and Memory without a reboot natively. Turbonomic should be able to leverage the API and do the same without requiri...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Submitted

IM: Support custom buttons on VMs and Templates page

Currently custom buttons for VMs are only available on the Compute ->Infrastructure ->Virtual Machines -> VMs This is not very intuitive as the view for virtual machines defaults to: Compute -> Infrastructure -> Virtual Machines -&g...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ITM Windows Agent to use latest VC++ redist version which is currently supported by Microsoft and remove dependency of using VC++ 2008, 2013

Currently ITM Windows OS Agent (NT) is using VC++ 2008 release up to SP5 and VC++ 2013 release from SP6 and above. Both VC++ releases were no longer supported by Microsoft which results in compliance Issue and can also be a security threat. So, we...
11 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Needs more information

AWS Plugin - Recommended Cloud Object Types for Enhanced Scope

The Following AWS Object Types/Indicators in our business were defined as critical key indicators that our clients would want to have visibility and alerting to, the request of this IDEA is a step to create further metrics to be gathered by the pl...
2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 3 Planned for future release

AWS Plugin - Peer Distribution Options for AWS Profile Device Creators.

With a Master Cluster build, our least allocated peer will always be our Cluster Master. A business design of the master is that it is used as the main interface of all users for production environments, api scripting, data enrichment, and other c...
2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

AWS Plugin - Synthetic Indicators

As opposed to using REST API to create calculation poller data, we would be able to define expressions that use the pollable fields to create new AWS objects for metrics. (Examples of this can include In and Out metrics translated from their bits/...
2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration