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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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Show all information of the selected time period in the Kubernetes views

If a time period is selected and the user want to view Events and Pods of an kubernetes object (Deployment/Service/etc.) Instana only shows the Pods and the Events of the Pods that were "online" at the endpoint of the time period. For many users t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

extract more then one group with regex in the omnibus-probe

Regex support multiple groups but not in the Omnibus-probe. I have test it and only the fist group is shown. Example. $input="testTEST1testTEST2test" $output=extract($inpunt,"test(.*)test(.*)test") $output will show "TEST1" But I like to see " TES...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Documented API twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun

We use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/action/rerun which is well documented but we need alos to use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun API which not documented. This AP...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Add customizable columns to the event page

It would be nice to have customizable columns on the events list.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Enabling Java 2 security should not break the application

Based on Visa Security policies we have to enable Java 2 security. However, enabling Java 2 security will break the JazzSM/WebGUI application. All the icons will go missing after logging into WebGUI. IBM has provided a workaround to add the below ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 7 Planned for future release

Consider disabling file serving and directory browsing (fileServingEnabled & com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing)

According to Visa Security policies fileServingEnabled property should be disabled on all the /WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi' file(s). This property is managed by global property which is com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing. If this is set tr...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Functionality already exists

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists