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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 Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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ITM Tag files for ILMT

US Customs and Border Protection uses ILMT to gather version information in use to ensure they are current. Currently, there are no tag files for the ITM v6 infrastructure components and some of the base monitoring agents (such as HMC). The reques...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

AWS Timestream DB Monitoring

AWS timestream DB monitoring
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

No Operation

The No Operation field does not show up on the Plan List nor can it be seen on the Data Base in View Mode.
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

NOI-onprem - LastOccurrence field of Parent not updated by default

On NOI-on prem, in Related Event Grouping, it is observed that the LastOccurrence field of the Parent Event is not updated with the lastoccurrence that of the latest child events in that group. However, in case of Scope Based Event Grouping, the l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Support for MicroProfile

We have microservices built on Eclipse MicroProfile would like to get this supported as well in Instana. MicroProfile provides standard implementations for metrics, tracing and health checks. We are using Payara Micro but also plan to use Quarkus.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

supported cpu for detection of abnormal end of applications

One of our prospect of resell partner of Instana found that "no-support of Intel cpu" when its applications had been ended abnormally. The customer wondered why only AMD was supported, even Intel also share majority of market footprints. We need t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 3 Not under consideration

Add cluster wide usage lines to graphs

It would be good to have the same usage lines in the graph as we see them on namespaces or deployments.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Golang AutoTrace

Add AutoTrace for Golang. Besides our custom operators, a lot of Kubernetes components are written in Golang. We would like tracing for Golang without having to update the code. I suspect the approach would likely need to use eBPF instead of using...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 3 Not under consideration