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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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Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
6 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
29 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM The subject of the development request concerns the detection of loops on the current plan of IWS MDM Linux in the Forcast process and the blocking of the calculation of the curr...
28 minutes ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Multi factor Authentication

"Background:Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances the security of an application by providing an added layer(s) of authentication mechanism. The authentication mechanism can be any of the following types: what the user knows (security questio...
44 minutes ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

We want to restrict volume changes to ONLY performance and not efficiency.

The customer has a DR environment with lots of volumes. Turbo is recommending downsizes that the customer doesn't want. Right now Turbo policy has an option Prefer Savings Over Reversibility. But unlike VM policy we can't restrict changes to just ...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

AIOps license utilisation in UI

Customers need to see the AIOps license utilisation, number of managed devices, client devices, and logs processed in GB. This will help customer for budgeting next yeat license purchase.
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Call Turbonomic API using SSO/SAML credential/token (not local user)

We can only execute APIs using a local user or Oauth. So, we have 2 problems: a) local user can't be protected like an SSO user (like when using Azure AD for conditional access); b) Oauth authentication in Turbo for APIs makes the Turbonomic an Oa...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 3 Planned for future release

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
14 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration