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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...
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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Websites/More metrics in Page Load trace

Based on many comments received from customers we will value you consider adding the following key metrics in the page load trace of websites:OnLoadTimeDOM TimeFirst PaintFirst byte timeRequestResponse Thank you.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Allow failover impact server in RBA configuration

When configuring RBA in a hybrid environment, with the Impact cluster on premise, there is only one option to configure the impact connection. There is no place to specify a backup server. if the primary impact server stopped, one would have to ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud)

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud) to be able to send only actions for certain groups of VMs and Volumes that are for performance to ServiceNow during a certain time frame and other actions that are...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

Email Probe -comapatibe multibytes Email.

Email Probe does not support multi-byte messages.Japanese people use multi-byte emails, so I would like Email Probe to support this.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

When viewing a VM / Pod the user should have access to a terminal for access / running commands

When scoping to a VM / Pod we show actions that can be performed on the entities. However, some customers would also like to do some sort of independent debugging. If we have a terminal in the UI we can allow for the user to stay within Turbonomic...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule.

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Information on jobs waiting on parallel server limits

Would like a report of jobs waiting on workstation parallel servers and how long they were waiting before starting. This would facilitate analysis of jobstream delays and identifying bottlenecks in the nightly batch.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration