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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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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 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

AWS Tags not getting captured for Servers where IMSDV2 was enabled..

We have configured Disk Space events on few servers to alert on Disk Space utilization, but the alerts not triggered though the Disk Space threshold exceeded the limit. When verified we noticed that tags are missing for respective servers, and we ...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Deployment support publicly for upstream (OSS) K8s environment

We understand that previously (before TOB), we supported the Multi Node Turbonomic deployment option for large scale environments to upstream (OSS) K8s environments. Procedure published the following. https://github.com/turbonomic/t8c-install/wiki...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Delivered

Add the ability to use external-secrets to the config for self-hosted POP

We do not want to put our Instana key in github and would like to be able to use external-secrets similar to how we do with the instana-agent.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

Add support discovery for RHEL > 8

Add discovery support for RHEL > 8, at the moment max version supported is RHEL 8 x86_64, it's needed that you support version > 8. If needed refer to caseTS008987318 Thanks
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

RunBook Automation - SSH Encryption Method - Ed25519

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it is much more secure than SSH-RSA Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase security when using SSH with the product. How should it...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

to extract from Azure the fact that a disk is an OS disk or a data disk without needing to rely on a naming standard

this will make it easier to associate different policies associated to the different disk types
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered

License consumption split on Windows, Linux, DBs, etc in Turbonomic

It is good to know how many licenses we are spending on each category and will have better understanding of profitable utilization on them
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 4 Delivered

support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered