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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Filter based on risk category and description

Please add support to be able to create a group based on risk category (and description if possible) so that I can build policies that are specific to different types of risk. For example, I would like to be able to create a group and policy that ...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Get Application Infrastructure for multiple applications at once

We're trying to collect all the application infrastructure as returned by /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology/filtered-topology. When there are many, it can imply a significant back and forth, with many request/response. It would be beneficial...
9 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Basic filtering in /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology

Currently we're using /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology to retrieve the list of a subset of the infrastructure snapshots and their relations. The problem is that this endpoints returns everything, and therefore produces massive responses fro...
10 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Please can you impement support for importing tags from DataDog that have already been imported into datadog for example azure

This will reduce duplication of tags as SaaS and IaaS only need to be tagged once rather than duplication.
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable System "temperature" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the System temperature.
11 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

A more robust Impact cluster failover is needed as the current heartbeat to nameserver primary is not sufficient

Currently, if the Primary Impact server is "crippled", meaning it is still up but is no longer able to process work, it can respond to heartbeat ping requests from the cluster members, causing the cluster members to think they do not need to assum...
23 days ago in IBM AIOps Insights 1 Submitted

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
24 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Personal API Token with same rights than the user to whom the token belows

We have been told by Instana support that users allowed to create their personal API tokens can access through the API to data that they have forbidden to access through the User Interface, which would seem to not be coherent at all. I would like ...
13 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Need to update the date related field values into SharePoint

For more details, please find the related support case number TS015931077.
13 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Need to do custom filters (Condition) to retrieve the data from SharePoint.

For more details, please find the related support case number TS015931307.
13 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted