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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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PowerVC monitoring

In IBM Power Cloud offerings the PowerVC is core product. We will like to monitor and also to collect different metrics like capacity/health performance reported by PowerVC.
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Under review

PowerVC sensor

Instana already has the Openstack sensor. Although it can help to discover and observe part of PowerVC, the diagnostics of the PowerVC compute instances are missing and cannot be monitored. Also the pHMC sensor does not cover the same functionalit...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Under review

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 0 Future consideration

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

Introducing analyze infrastructure (Open Beta Feature) to self hosted installation

As we upgraded our instana version we were looking forward for the analyze infrastructure feature, but sadly it is not available on self hosted configuration. this feature would help us analyze our use cases with more flexibility
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Adding Compute Express Link CXL Devices to Cloud Pack for Watson AIOps

This is very important in the Cloud Satellite which needs more attachments with the CXL Devices for Acceleration nof AIOps for the Enterprises On-Premise or Hybrid Cloud with Edge Computing. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Co...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Under review

testtest

testtest
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

Support of weblogic v14

As already weblogic v12 is currently supported, it would be beneficial if v14 would be supported.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review