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PINNED 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
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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ITNM SNMP poll definition should allow setting specific index

When trying to snmp poll for e.g. a routing engine teperature index it resulted that it is not possible to query directly from the basic threshold policy on an indexed OID like 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.3.1.13.1.7.9.1.0.0. It is only possible to poll for t...
over 9 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Have fixed window for CNEA supergrouping

Currently our supergroup is on rolling window, when we are grouping based on topology, the blast radius is huge, as we are using token based template using various criteria like location, dispatching zone polygon etc. As a result our supergroup is...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Zabbix Events connector on Watson AIOPS (AI Manager)

We are doing a project with Zabbix as source for our Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1 platform and only could get the metrics for anomalies detection using the Mediation Pack as alternative component, but that will not cover getting the events from...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Java Tracing support for Spring Boot version 2.7.x

Currently, the db tracing breaks for spring-boot services with version 2.7.X. Calls against a MongoDB are not captured by Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

ITSM: Service Now change request integration for databases

Turbonomic doesn't provide integration with Service Now change management with respect to Azure Database types such as SQL. The current integration is limited to VM instance types. In scoping to a single Azure SQL database and setting up associate...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 4 Delivered

ITSM: Service Now change request integration for databases

Useful for the ability to allow Turbonomic even more automation within a SNOW environment, Furthering the investment in both products for the customer
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 3 Delivered

Sensor for Redhat RHEV

Sensor for the discovery of 'Red Hat Virtualization' RHV - formerly known as RHEV (RHEV-H, RHEV-M).
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered