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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 Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Use the more secure Azure Managed Identity instead of SAS token when authenticating SevOne DataBus (SDB) against a Kafka enabled Event Hub

Currently, our SevOne DataBus (SDB) feed is sending to an Azure Event Hub as the Kafka Consumer endpoint. Authentication relies on a SAS token (SharedAccessKey). The use of SAS tokens as an authentication mechanism is proved to be less secure, and...
16 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

The UI needs to handle failed Administrative Data Tasks.

It is quite common for an administrative task that leverages Kafka to timeout and fail. Leaving the task in a hung up condition. The present procedure to clear these issues is running 2 or 3 calls to swagger to clear the condition. These calls are...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Discover Azure Storage Account Soft Delete Capacities

Discovery Azure Storage accounts and their respective soft delete capacities. Based on the soft deleted capacities calculate size of soft deleted blobs providing the ability to save consumption costs for Azure Storage that is not easily visible to...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

EUM Crash Reporting - Limit or disable sending crash report

We have currently roughly 10 M app user and want to use crash reporting funtionality.In this cause we are looking for a way to limit or deact end-user to send crash reporting e.g. by config, to limit overload of network and protect instana backend...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Under review

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Under review

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Update TADDM HACMP Sensor to be able to discover HACMP versions 7.2+ on AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above..

Currently deployed AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above use HACMP v7.2+. The HACMP sensor in FP11 only supports version 7.1 according to TADDM documentation and is not getting triggered when HACMP version 7.2+ is running on the server.
3 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Under review

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

NOI Grouped Parent Alarm is not considering MIN FO Alarm Values

We found that the NOI Grouped Parent alarm is not considering the Minimum FO Child Alarm values to populate in the parent alarm fields As per cea_process_ckeyparents procedure , this should be the precedence -- IN CASE MULTIPLE CustomText PROPAGAT...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review