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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?
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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Support recent versions of MongoDB Java Driver

We are using a Mongo enterprise 4.2.24 cluster and configured the mongo driver in our java applications. With a very old driver version like 2.4.0, we can see mongodb traces in our API calls. But with the latest 4.x driver version (we have 4.7.0 a...
10 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

Tags and cmdb reporting

The ability to easily customize the reports and utilize tags and the CMDB without having to engage Turbonomic and/or manually combine the data with Excel.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Delivered

Test Powershell support for Actions Beta

We have been told that Powershell should in theory work on windows hosts for the actions beta, but it's unclear how thoroughly this has been tested.
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Netcool Impact 7.1 - OAuth integration [Google]

configure Impact 7.1 GUI Server for Google authentication - OAuth
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Delivered

MCM to provide the choice of deploying multiple version of OCP cluster on AWS

Details: Currently via MCM we cannot provision different version of Openshift cluster on AWS as the version is dependent on the openshift-installer binary and which is a static value in multicluster-hub-cluster-api-provider-ocp microservice.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

To be able to monitor AlmaLinux

Currently AlmaLinux was not supported by Instana. Currently, the number of customers using AlmaLinux is increasing as it is the successor to centOS. So, it will be greate if Instana could monitor AlmaLinux.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Delivered

MQ Monitoring: Monitor the same Qmgr name on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml

Monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml is not supported for MQ sensor. MQ sensor can monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts, but need to be monitored from different agent host. MQ sensor support RDQ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Delivered

Netcool WebGUI load balance support for Oracle database

Currently WebGUI (JazzSM) only supports the usage of DB2 in the HA load balanced configuration, we are in need of this configuration to support the usage of Oracle as part of our new firm driven requirements.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Include multiple prometheus metrics(same type but from different envs) in one event.

There are about 50 kinds of prometheus metrics that we need to monitor for each env. When we use instana to create events for these metrics, we found that including multiple metrics in one event is not supported by either UI or API. That means eve...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure / SRE 2 Delivered

SmartModel driver for Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers for OS 17.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
11 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered