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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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Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Encryption of credentials in configuration

It would be desirable if the credentials configured in Alert Channels were not displayed in plain text. This makes it possible for anyone with access to Instana to go into the configuration and see the credentials (username and password) in plain ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Showing the Revision/Version of Azure Windows on Turbonomic Entity UI

Currently, in the Turbonomic Entity UI, "Windows" is shown under "OS and Software." However, in the Azure Console, "Operating system" is displayed as "Windows (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter)," showing details like the type of Windows OS and its R...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Enhancement Request: Enhanced Debug Logging for Netcool JDBC Gateway

I am raising this request an enhancement to the Netcool JDBC Gateway. Currently, there is no mechanism to identify problematic ObjectServer column information in JDBC Gateway debug logs. When issues arise with ObjectServer columns, such as varchar...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review