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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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Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Get Turbonomic Recommendations for AWS Lambda

As customers advance in cloud usage, there's a shift towards server-less setups for both services and apps. Picking the correct Lambda setting based on needs is tricky, with each choice having its cost implications. It would me more useful if Turb...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Future consideration

Encrypt password while performing the core installation of Netcool/Impact

When trying to install the Netcool/Impact core Server and GUI components, we see we are unable to use the encrypted passwords in the silent response file, when we define the encrypted passwords in the silent response file, we see accounts are gett...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Combine Azure volume scaling with VM scaling based on VM tags

What is the desired customer use case?: The customer would like from a policy to trigger the actions and execute the n actions at the same time (automatically/programmatically using API calls based on VM tags to select all the action related to o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Instead of INSTANA_IGNORE=true, customer would like to have an opt-in approach for monitoring java processes

We have a customer that is trying to monitor java. By default, Instana auto-instruments everything within the kubernetes cluster. The customer doesn't want everything instrumented because it can have an impact on the application performance. I tol...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Needs more information

Monitoring WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

A representative customer in LAC has its core business based on this enterprise bus, it is required to have specialized monitoring on this platform. Ref: https://ei.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

Self-hosted synthetic pop deployment via stanctl - "stanctl pop up"

Implement`stanctl pop up` including k3s installation.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0