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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...
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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re-occurring maintenance window

It appears the only way to set maintenance windows (to suppress alerts) is to setup a maintenance window but it only allows specific dates and times. Our maintenance windows are set by day of week and time (regardless of specific date). For exampl...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

Regex support for "Account" group filter

When selecting accounts (or Azure subscriptions) for a particular VM group, we sometimes want to create a large scope. We have over 160 accounts in our environment and we like to have a group scoped to non-production and production. To create thos...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Delivered

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on ZTE C300M (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'ZTE C300M device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.3902.1082.1001.6000.4.2 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is not supported and w...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Make quick filters ignore relations in EventViewer

Suppose you have an event viewer with these events:* Alert 1 - severity 5* Alert 2 - Severity 4 * Alert 3 - Severity 5 Then we create a Quick Filter (in the top right corner of the event viewer) Severity = 5. Now the event viewer shows: * Alert 1 ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

AWS Tags not getting captured for Servers where IMSDV2 was enabled..

We have configured Disk Space events on few servers to alert on Disk Space utilization, but the alerts not triggered though the Disk Space threshold exceeded the limit. When verified we noticed that tags are missing for respective servers, and we ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Change the Memory Setting in "Host Templates" to Gigabytes rather than Megabytes

Due to the size of memory in all hardware now having the memory setting in megabytes takes some additional time to work out as have to calculate the exact MB amount when converting from GB in machine. Would be easier to have the memory amount sett...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Delivered

Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Export data to CSV

Our users need to extract data from instana to generate report for SLA to our clients. So we 'd like to have a button "export Data" from the analytic view to get data. Regards
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x

According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Probable Cause Calculation

Need a telecom grade probable cause calculation. The current probable cause calculation based on keyword and probable cause count doesn't work for the project, as our alarm summary can't be based on NLP, the summary is very specific to telecom eve...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered