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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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Turbonomic should be able to Suspend SQL Managed Instances

Turbonomic has suspend already for VMs and RDS servers. What about SQL MI? The customer would save on compute costs - but of course still have to pay for storage, etc.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Delivered

Support IMDSv2 on AWS

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Problem to discover Serial Number, Manufacturer and vendor parameters for Tiesse devices

I'm trying to find the serial number, manifacture and vendor parameters of the Tiesse devices. I built the ad hoc agent but even if it does not give an error it does not extract the desired values.
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Delivered

APM ISM performance issue

When an APM ISM agent (on the Linux platform) has a large number of active profile elements (200, 300. etc.), after restarting the ISM agent, profile deployment, or any change of profile elements, the ISM agent takes a long time (2-3 hours) to con...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Monitoring Tibco BW - metrics

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 4 Delivered

Kong - Add support for missing metrics for admin token based authentication

According to the url - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kong-api-gateway-open-beta#viewing-metrics the below metrics should be supported. We have observed that the below panels are not capturi...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Delivered

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if a configuration change has occurred

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if a configuration change has occurred
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Delivered

SAP ABAP Sensor – Display Tables irrespective of it having Payload

SAP ABAP Sensor – Display Tables irrespective of it having Payload
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Delivered

Turbonomic discovery of Tags for a group of Azure subscription

When creating a group with filter applied, for RG (resource group) group & VM group, Tag filter is available, but no for creating a group for account. We can see tag details shown in the Related Tag Information widget for resource group and V...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Delivered