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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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Instana k8s as operator + customer file - Exclude namespaces

It definitively makes sense to provide a mechanism which allows users to exclude entities from monitoring based on annotations and meta data
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Not under consideration

nco_p_message_bus - message_bus_cisco_epnm supporting EMS server redundancy

To support redundancy at the endpoint, an enhancement is required for the probe to rotate endpoint addresses between the primary and backup servers depending on availability. EMS - Cisco EPNM Probe - nco_p_message_bus Transport - Websocket (messag...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ITM Agent shows wrong OS version in TEP on Windows 2022 platform

ITM monitoring agent V6.3 with SP6 seems to work in recently published Windows 2022 Server OS. However Attribute "Windows Operation System Type" shows wrong OS version in TEP like Windows_2019 for Windows 2022. I remember there was a same problem ...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Dismantle Related Event Grouping with lesser children

Any property or configuration that we can use to "Restrict Related Event Grouping, Parent Synthetic Alarm " not to create Group if it has lesser number of children's ( typically 1 or 2) same as SEG minimumchildren property.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

SEG to allow nested conditions with OR, AND

SEG (Scope Based Grouping) can be more powerful and flexible if it can also support Nested Condition e.g (Class = 190876 AND (X733SpecificProbe like 'hi' or AlertGroup like 'Temp') But in SeG webgui UI , it only allows either And/OR conditions but...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Hostname details instead of service name in custom event alert?

The customer would like to see Hostname details in custom event alerts instead of service or process names.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters.

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters. Due to the above limitation the fi...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Configuring APM Liberty Data Collector in Agent Coexistence APM-ITM

We need to monitoring Liberty AppServers, to can be viewed from APM and ITM infraestructures, like WAS App Servers configured in coexistence agente mode (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/capm?topic=cdcwaa-agent-coexistence-configuring-websphere-applica...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Filetransfer-plugin for IWS 9.5.x does not support datasets on z/OS (MVS) that are migrated by DFHSM

In TWS 9.3 everything is working fine. When a dataset on z/OS is migrated by DFHSM (the storage-administrator of MVS / z/OS) and TWS (agent or MDM) is trying to upload to, or download from, z/OS, the filetransfer-plugin does an alloc of this datas...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Netact SNMP trap retransmission

Netact Corba interface ramp-down is planned for NetAct 22 FP2201, which is the first feature package in 2022 Jan. Requirement is to have a probe, capable of requesting SNMP trap retransmission. SNMP alarm upload: http://cudovm01.netact.nsn-rdnet.n...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration