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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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Add "Google Workspace" as collaboration tools for Chatops other than SLACK/MS-TEAMS

This has been a request from customer BPER, that has already bought the solution but doesn't have the possibility to implement Chatops, 'cause they have Google Workspace as collaboration tool.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 2 Future consideration

MCM Cassandra , increase trace retention to 4 days

Our customer from CE needs the retention data of application traces to be 4 days , instead of default 2 days. We understood this is hardcoded in Cassnadra but can not be changed / configured. We are using OCP 4.10.43 + MCM 2.3.28(FP6) TS011304665
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to add Dynamic Custom payloads to Alerts

Need to be able to add Dynamic custom payloads to an Alert. Currently, within Instana, you can add Dynamic custom payloads globally. But many parameters don't make sense to add globally. For example, I don't want to add an MQ Queue Name to a java ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Improving authentication between Netcool and SNOW

Security is a major concern for all IT application today. As per recommended security standard, authentication between applications using basic authentication is creating a risk of exposing the username and password to hackers and they can use the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Validate/Edit the policy and how to migrate the learnt policy from one env to other

CNEA - validating the machine policy learning, how to unlearn, and how to migrate the learnt policies between environments. If we give the task to validate the grouping to an SME, how does a business person validate the policy, able to edit, able ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Netcool Omnibus Object Server User Repository-Password enforcement policy

Our customer is using Omnibus object server as user repository. And wants to implement the following password enforcement policies.1. Password history should be enforced for last 4 passwords not to be permitted.2. Application should enforce passwo...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Intgration qradar

In monitoring you need a holistic view, like cloud, multicloud, etc. also you need a main dashboard where everything comes together. security and performance are related to each other. So it will be great if qradar can be integrated in the Instana...
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Use the same Channel/Subscription model for apps running in VM-based infra too

MCM and the coming RH ACM are both container friendly solutions, which bring in a unified and simplified Channel/Subscription model to deploy and manage applications within managed Kubernetes clusters across cloud providers. But the vision of CP4M...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Planned for future release

Availability to modify/adjust the weights used to determine the Most Probable cause

When ASM does the Topology grouping, it uses the pre-defined weights of the edge entities to determine which event is more likely to be the Probable Cause, we are looking for a mechanism we can use to adjust/tweak the weights based on the SME anal...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release