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More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
3 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Mechanism to prevent the same instance of a widget from repeatedly sending requests when there is no response to a previous request

Currently, DASH triggers multiple GET requests from widgets to the corresponding datasets, driven by an update timer. However, when a request does not receive a response, DASH lacks a mechanism to stop repeated requests from the same widget instan...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 17 Future consideration

Observability to APIC since INSTANA.

Banco Popular of the Dominican Republic needs to integrate INSTANA with APIC, with the goal of observing: _ Provider Organizations_ Catalogs_ APIs (Requests) The problem is that the integration between both products has been underway for over a mo...
3 months ago in Instana / API-C 2 Under review

Log Anomaly Detection Alerts need improvement

The alerts generated by Log Anomaly Detection don't give an indication as to what the issue is. The Alert Summary only contains the template name. The Summary should be more user friendly..something like "log message xxxxxxx occurred x times" it t...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

More options to setup conditions for triggering policies

We have a few automations in place and in development which must be triggered by specific actions on AIOps, which are currently not supported by the application. Right now, we need to trigger the policy for each and every alert update, and then ch...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard support a link icon.

Currently, App monitoring dashboard supports BigNumber widget with a link icon. However, BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard does not. This issue be improved ASAP.
14 days ago in Instana / Automation 1 Under review

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
14 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 0 Future consideration