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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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Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Ansible Automation Scripts for Agent and TEPS Installation

Clients today use ITM as a base monitoring solutions for a variety of systems. In order to easily roll out ITM to additional systems, the ask is that ITM provide ansible automation scripts to assist with installation of server and agent components.
10 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Add support to another KexAlgorithms for SSh login

While scanning with TADDM part of the infrastructure, we couldn't login due to mismatch of the kexAlegorithms setup on the OS level and supported by TADDM => The kex algo 'curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org' is not supported by TADD...
10 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Durable Topic Subscription in JMS Probe

For high availability, we need to have a durable subscription for the MQ topic which pushes events into the Message Bus Probe. We are using a JMS subscription to push these events. We have noticed that other probes than the Message Bus Probe suppo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Enhance the Workload Widget to show where new workloads are coming from to properly estimate and manage Turbo licenses.

There is a widget called Workload Improvement – and it has 3 types, On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid. I think it would be VERY useful if we add various parameters to this graph (focusing mostly on cloud) 1)Provider (aws, gcp, azure0 2) Subscription (Acco...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Restrict the number of RestAPI calls made to TWSz

System : IBM Workload Scheduler and Dynamic Workload consoleActor : DWC users We use DWC RestAPI to interact with IWSz for monitoring and batch operations (submit, restart jobs, etc.) for Mainframe as well as Distributed jobs. Also application tea...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
10 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
10 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration