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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?
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
2 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

DWC Sharing boards with groups

Users can create custom boards which are useful to display multiple queries at once, but currently these boards can be shared only among DWC roles, which are very large scopes. It would be usefull if one can share his custom board among users belo...
about 2 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Get Application Infrastructure for multiple applications at once

We're trying to collect all the application infrastructure as returned by /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology/filtered-topology. When there are many, it can imply a significant back and forth, with many request/response. It would be beneficial...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Basic filtering in /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology

Currently we're using /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology to retrieve the list of a subset of the infrastructure snapshots and their relations. The problem is that this endpoints returns everything, and therefore produces massive responses fro...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Allow a single SaaS instance to connect to multiple Service Now environments (Dev/Test/Prod)

From a Turbonomic SaaS instance there is a need to have Turbonomic connect to two Service Now environments. Some of the items in the market uses one service now environment while rest of Turbo uses the second one. This will allow for testing again...
about 14 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Submitted

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable System "temperature" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the System temperature.
1 day ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Optimize download when installing in an offline environment

When following the documented installation procedure for CP4AIOps Infrastructure Automation offline deployment, an extremely large download file is produced. This download contains multiple versions of operators and components and requires conside...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Need ACE OTEL traces to correlate to the proper ACE infrastructure

I'm working with a customer that has deployed ACE with OpenTelemetry tracing on traditional servers. When we diagnose problems and drill into the traces, the link from the trace to the Infrastructure links to the Host Agent for the ACE server. Thi...
2 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Submitted