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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?

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Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
26 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Under review

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Update the NMS to allow customer defined VPC endpoints for AWS Monitoring

To gather monitoring metrics, the SevOne AWS plugin utilizes a set of unknown (to the user) AWS endpoints published by Amazon, and subject to change. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json SevOne documentation requires only an outbound 443...
15 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow resizing action of namespace quota

We, IBM CIO, set default namespace quotas in OpenShift clusters. However, some applications need to use more resources than the default resource quotas set. Either due to a technical reason or business criticality. Today, we need to contact SRE te...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
26 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Functionality to integrate with MAS (Maximo Application Suite) for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc

Raised on behalf of Telecom Egypt: "What we need is to have a functionality to integrate with MAS for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc. I took an example of what is already implemented in AIOPS which is “ServiceNow”, this is...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Capture utilization history for frequently redeployed workloads

As a user of Turbonomic I would like my workloads that I redeploy every 30 days, to have their utilization captured historically so that i can use more than 30 days of utilization data in scaling analysis.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Project cost savings based on parking schedules

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the ability to project cost savings based on parking schedules and resources selected, so that I can predict and plan for the cost savings associated with parking the workloads.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review