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Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Delivered

Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

.NET Core and Framework Profiling on Windows

When developing software you sometimes run into memory leaks or high CPU that are difficult to explain. Profiling can help to identify the root cause so the issue can be solved. This feature already exist for Linux: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ins...
about 3 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation. Instana injects a 12 MB jar file in the /tmp folder if pods in the OCP cluster. If the pods do not have enough space, then the pods may be evicted. By checking if there is enough space be...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered

Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Recalculate smart alert baseline via API

We're managing multiple instana backends via API configuration. This works for many configuration items. However it doesn't work for Smart Alerts with a daily or weakly seasonality. Seasonality differs per system. While it is possible to recalcula...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Showing Number of active child alerts for synthetic alerts in NOI Event Analytics Related events

Showing Number of active child alerts for synthetic alerts in NOI Event Analytics Related events. This is very much similar to scope based grouping. In scope based grouping we can see number of active events for parent synthetic alerts. Similarly ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Add md5_hash function to IMPACT

We now have md5_hash() in the Probes and in the ObjectServer. Great! To make full use of md5 hashes, we also need this function available in Impact so that we can create hashes and compare then against those alsready created in the probe / the Obj...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered