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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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Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Add node_module prom-client to synthetic-pop-javascript-playback-engine

Intro: This idea, makes alot of sense for people that wants to use synthetic checks to query a prometheus endpoint. Implementation from your side is simply add the prom-client module in synthetic checks pods. Description: If you add the prometheus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

Capability to add freeform text and snap to grid on Network View

Looking for capability to add freeform text in network view for some additional information on Network View , also capability to snap to grid on placement of object in network view.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Allow empty column in WebGUI View for UTC fields with value 0

This RFE was suggested since we could not find a solution for case TS011100966. We have added an UTC field to alerts.status, which remains empty most of the time (i.e., equal to 0). When displaying this column in Event Viewer, the value 0 is conve...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

support requests routed by the Apache Sling

Requests routed by the Apache Sling is not properly handled by the Java Trace plugin. We have noticed that Instana is capturing Apache Sling calls as erroneous calls. We have raised a support ticket with Instana support and the suggestion was to r...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 11 Delivered

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
6 months ago in Instana / PHP 3 Delivered

current documentation implies that VCPU Resize Min threshold works in all cases

this caused consternation at the client - where several hours were wasted because of a lack of clarity about how this policy setting works. Current documentation is here,. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.12.2?topic=infrastructure-virtual-machin...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Delivered

ITNM Webtools not working with devices that require SHA2 envryption

ITNM webtools that uses SSH to run the commands remotely on devices that require SHA2 are failing because ITNM uses only SHA1 currentl. More details can be found at IBM case TS006186609.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered