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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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Allow flash time for EventViewer to be configured

The below properties in the <user>.nova files are applicable to AEL only ael_user_properties_flash_time:400 ael_user_properties_flash_brightness:0 ael_user_properties_flash_enabled:true ael_user_properties_notify_flash_icon:true The Event Vi...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling - Alert Suppression Request using web link or REST API call using programming and not just using Watson Maintenance windows

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling. In order of priority: Need an API for integrations Our Centralized Dashboard should have a way to set Maintenance Windows’s Users should be able to click a link in an incident ticket to disable/...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Targets and General Configurations as YAML

I have recently experienced issues at a customer that rotates credentials, api keys or access keys to endpoints or targets and have failed to update Turbo automatically because it is not baked into any operational process. Now the first thing that...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Node state shows as “Active” in Turbonomic Console even when a Node is marked as “unschedulable” in OpenShift

When draining a NODE OpenShift Kubernetes, and un-schedulable in OpenShift, Turbonomic console shows the node as "Active". There is no way to know if a NODE is un-schedulable or cordoned. Similar to VCenter where a Host is in maintenance mode it s...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Functionality already exists

POD Placement: Error Details insufficient for "Failed to start action... due to error"

Failed POD moves do not say why the Failed to start action ended in an error and what that error is. A long number is shown with in not informative. Can you link the number to a meaning and present that in the error output?
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Is a defect

add AWS resource ID to report column options

I am trying to correlate the scaling recommendations in turbonomics to an AWS cost report, and I can't find a good field to join on (the aws report doesn't have instance name). if the turbonomic report had the instanceID, that would do it for me
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to aggregate the async latency number collected from traces

We would like to be able to aggregate the async latency number that already exists in the UI for traces. Ideally we would want to create alerts on outlying numbers. This would be very useful to understand whether full user journeys have degraded i...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release