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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Allow custom events be created for entity type: IBM MQ MFT Monitor

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Monitor is not available as an entity type to select when creating a custom event. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Monitor when they are in a status other than STARTED.
10 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Remove Android Character Limit

I would like to request that the android-agent in the CustomEvent file be updated to remove the 1024-character limit on logs. This is because the current limit is causing logs to be truncated from Android devices, whereas they are not from iOS dev...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Queue-Level Message Size Visibility

Instana can enhance its monitoring capabilities by introducing the ability to collect metrics for the message sizes at the queue level, complementing the existing feature of bytes received at the channel level.
10 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

DB2 - HADR_FLAGS metric to be Monitored and Alerted

Hi Team!According to Instana documentation, sounds "HADR_FLAGS" metric is not collected, correct ?So when a tablespaces is invalid or error state on the Standby database, the HADR_FLAGS field will displaythe value STANDBY_TABLESPACE_ERROR. Monitor...
11 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Future consideration

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Instana is really good at monitoring as observability of Kubernetes. But its capability is only focusing on Pod as Kubernetes deployment not as K8S CronJob that is so different.

Instana has plenty of built-in Events for Kubernetes Monitoring. However, some built-in events only suit Pods as Kubernetes deployment, not Pods as CronJob.Instana built-in Event : "Kubernetes Pod condition status" generates Critical Issue in the ...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Under review

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Ability to save & restore, clone Event & Alert configurations or create templates

Use cases: - When Events and Alerts are created, users would benefit to have ability to save configuration as a template to use as baseline for other events - save configuration to be able to revert back to after trying some changes - as a work ar...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Import AD and UI cert through UI

Today the customer's need to go through editing yaml files on the backend to be able to use secure ldap or importing a cert to to secure the Turbonomic UI or when using secure proxy when targeting cloud targets. All these scenarios need the custom...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration