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Default Dashboard for DB2 Monitoring

🎯 Goal : Enable database administrators and operations teams to quickly assess the health and performance of DB2 environments without additional setup or custom dashboards. 📊 Suggested Dashboard Structure: Overview Total DB2 Hosts monitored Total ...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
7 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Default Dashboard for IBM MQ Monitoring (Queues, Channels, Connections)

🎯 Goal: Deliver a single, Centralized monitoring of MQ ( queues, channels, and connections), standardized dashboard that allows operations teams to quickly assess the state of IBM MQ environments across all servers, without the need for custom das...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
1 day ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
about 9 hours ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Documentation on how to setup SevOne NMS to monitor kubernetes via eBPF

There are quite a few mentions in blog posts and videos about combining SevOne NMS with Network Observability (NetObserv Operator) in order to monitor kubernetes via eBPF Introducing IBM SevOne 7 - Now available https://community.ibm.com/community...
1 day ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
6 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Submitted

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the Version field as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the Version information is delaying th...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ability to specify component level PVC starting capacity for all supported stateful components (that require a PVC).

Multiple reasons, primarily though, improved install experience in an automated flow, and also in cases of public cloud deployments where configuring storage class IOPS and throughput settings for AIOps means enforcing a minimum volume capacity, e...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted