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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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Log rotation for cockroachdb

Configure on the rolling of logs under /var/log/instana/cockroachdb as its been consuming a lot of space since we implemented the backend server. We need something in the configuration where we could provide details on how long these logs needs to...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Policy storage without server name

Please provide an option to allow for storage of $IMPACT_HOME/policy/*.ipl without the server name being forced into the policy name. This will allow for simplified storage of common policies shared amongst clusters or multiple clusters within ver...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improve CNEA Policy UI

the current version of policy UI does not allow to administer policies properly. there is no search, no chance to get an overview, etc. If the system detects a lot of policies, (> 1000) which is most time the case, the UI becomes unusable
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Launching configuration from the TEPS JWS client using Open Webstart

In case of Open Webstart possibility you should be able to configure and open all the option that ITM TEPS console has.
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Sector Busy Hour

Requirements from customer to have Sector Busy Hour calculation. Using the following small example, where we have the LTE Cells which belong to the same eNodeB “JHRTJML” LTE Cell Name Band Cell ID Sector JHRTJML_103 L26 103 S3 JHRTJML_102 L26 102 ...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana where it is easily to debug more in case of db connections increase,load,memory and cpu issues
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Cross-account Cloud Run Agent

in the monitoring cloud run docs at some point it says You need to configure one Instana agent to monitor the GCP project that you are interested in. A dedicated machine needs to be used to monitor GCP resources. If you want to monitor multiple GC...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Get notification of updates & patches for on-premise installations

A customer running an on-premise installation will never know if there are patches or updates available for their Instana version. What happens if a CVE patch is published? Will Instana notify the customer that they have a vulnerable version and t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration