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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?

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It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

We would like for the default comparison operator in Maintenance mode to default to the "in" operator.

Per our NOC, they would find it easer to setup Maintenance Mode when the default operator is set to "in" rather than the "=". Please reference IBM PMR Case TS016792091.
about 22 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

NodeJS npm @instana/collector – deno support

Currently, there isn't native support for the @instana/collector package in Deno, as Deno handles npm packages differently than Node.js, particularly when it comes to lifecycle scripts like the ones required by the @instana/collector. These script...
1 day ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

Backup and restorr

Customer has requested to have information related to backup and restore procedure guidelines for Turbonomic.
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Submitted

Support for HCI Fusion

Hi Team, Customers are interested to integrate HCI Fusion with Turbonomic. As of now Target is not supported. Thank you.
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

For JVM Monitoring customer needs ability to provide application memory leak analysis, lock contentions, process crash analysis

NSB is a Banking customer for Srilanka territory. They are managing thier core banking application with Instana. using Instana for core banking app. Instana Backend (docker development) Deployed in OS: Redhat server 8.8 (Ootpa) Number of reporting...
2 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Call Turbonomic API using SSO/SAML credential/token (not local user)

We can only execute APIs using a local user or Oauth. So, we have 2 problems: a) local user can't be protected like an SSO user (like when using Azure AD for conditional access); b) Oauth authentication in Turbo for APIs makes the Turbonomic an Oa...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 3 Planned for future release

Support Cron Expressions for automations scheduling

TargetProcess allows scheduling automations to run every x days, y hours, or z minutes. It would be a great improvement if we could use Cron Expressions to schedule automations. For example, if I want to run a specific automation every monday and ...
6 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Submitted

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted