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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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Add ability to set std_table_dot_walk parameter in servicenow-observer job UI

When discovering resources using the servicenow-observer for large CI tables an error is flagged up regarding pagination and suggestion in the manual is to set std_table_dot_walk=false via swagger. Now the manual is pretty poor when it comes to ho...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Adding default component statuses logging to default logging level

In cases TS004816821 and TS004896360 the customer faced problems with setting an optimal debug level to monitor the status of components. In case TS004816821 the customer had a fatal error when LDR did not send any data for approximately 4 days. I...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Supports HTTP Tracing for ppc64le little-endian architecture

Important finance company in Peru, is about to acquire Instana and needs to monitor with Instana agents the trace of its web servers. This is possible but the architecture is not supported.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba: Similar to other ports, the probe should identify a firewall issue with ORBLocalPort if any

Due to firewall or networking issue probe unable to Sync the events from EMS/Spectrum server. We discovered the fault by manual observations as there is no notification or exception for this issue in the probe. Therefore, it is difficult to resolv...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add ICMP and SNMP polling to Netdisco Observers

When ASM/Topology Manager is able to discover network and device structures via its Network Discovery Observers, why shouldn't it use this knowledge for performing healthcheck via ICMP and SNMP on this devices as well?
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Implement Synthetic Monitoring function in Docker (self-hosted) version

Customer is considering using Docker version in DMZ for open internet applications. Main Instana will be migrated into OCP version.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Not under consideration

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Getting container IP from extractor

Netskope would like the ability to get container IP from the extractor. PM comment: this is not functionality related to Turbonomic, rather an issue related to choice of or configuration of the Prometheus exporter used.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Working with Prometheus in container environment

Today we don’t manage exporter, and metric has to be in Turbo namespace, but Netskope would like it to be available in all namespaces.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

Option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see for Custom dashboard

In custom dashboard is there option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see the value for Custom dashboard as it would be helpful for SRE team to visualize the dashboard.
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration