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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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Javascript map files should not be downloaded repeatedly

The Website monitoring supports minified javascript through parsing of mapping files. However these mapping files are not cached by Instana so they are downloaded repeatedly. For big applications this means millions of downloads of files which are...
5 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
12 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Import multiple XML files to topology module in AIOps via file observer

We seek to import multiple XML files in Topology module rather than JSON files.The file observer can ingest JSON format as provided in this documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.8.0?topic=jobs-file-observer). Howe...
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Customizing password management policies

Why is it useful?Customers can customize their users passwords management and administration to comply with industry regulatory requirements. Who would benefit from it?Customers in industries that are regularly audited by regulatory entities. How ...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Under review

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Under review

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
27 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Record and preserve all data points in the Actions Executed log

Looking at the Executed Actions - Succeeded widget on the Action Impact & Savings dashboard, download the report. The issue is that in auditing groups of historical actions, it appears some of them are missing the volume and/or target IDs that...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Under review

Enable VMEM and VCPU Minimum Thresholds for Cloud based VMs

When dealing with 3rd party products, support plans, and licensing, there are often constraints placed on systems for preserving a minimum specification. Same would be true for maximums when it comes to things like database licensing that is tied ...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review