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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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Support MongoDB Atlas properly

Please support MongoDB Atlas properly, so multiple clusters can be setup sepeartely.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Network Visibility

Due to the increasingly complex nature of the network, we spend a lot of time tracking down connectivity issues. These issues might be due to an unknown firewall rule, a misconfigured network policy, or incorrect routing setup in Kubernetes. Addin...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

SevOne only has single Severity option for Custom Polling Policy

Need to adjust Severity for different thresholds within a policy. Example: >=70 Major, >=85 Critical.
over 1 year ago in SevOne 2 Planned for future release

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

CPU Socket adjustment.

client: " I’d like to have Turbo always set the number of CPU sockets to 2, and to adjust the cores per socket # to modify the # of vCPUs when RightSizing. Currently this is accomplished with a custom script. I would like this configurable on at t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Functionality already exists

SQL Target Enhancement

Client would like the SQL targets to be enhanced so that they can configure them with multiple ports and potentially multiple credentials.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

SELinux support for Netcool Omnibus on RHEL8

The default configuration of SELinux on RHEL8 is set to 'enforced'. During a Netcool Omnibus 8.1 installation on RHEL8, we noticed that the installation as such was fine, the ObjectServer and probes also were running. BUT, the nco start-up scripts...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

try/catch in Impact Policy should give full stack trace

When writing Java Script Impact Policies I noticed the following:In the below code example Log(error.stack) seems to only output a truncated stacktrace, which isn't really much use in debugging. I see that I can use error.message,but that does not...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Add Influx connector for metrics collection

Influx database is timebase database for metrics collection, it is widly use over the globe for store timeseries data. Connector for influx in AIOps will be very helpfull for ingesting metric for anomaly detection.
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review