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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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SOL005 observer request

A dynamic virtualized network topology in telco needs sol005 interface.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Plan Migration to show a cost comparison between migrating to the different cloud providers

Instead of a user creating 3 plans (one for each provider) and moving between dashboards to compare. A customer wanted to see a single dashboard comparing the possible migrations to all clouds to decide on the best one.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Need a dedicated console Webgui JAzzSM page for viewing Audit logs

Dear IBM, We need a dedicated console page indie of WebGUI JazzSM portal whcih will show the user audit logs in terms of who logged in, what time, from which host, which page/dashboard was accessed, edited any filters, views .... etc. Yes we ackno...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow HTTP actions to be created with insecure API endpoint

When creating a HTTP action, if you enter a API endpoint that beings with just http, not https, you get the following error message: "This field must be a valid https URL or start with a parameter of type 'string'. Either allow http endpoints (ver...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Jobtype Job Stream Submission flag optional

Verify the possibility of Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Job type Job Stream Submission flag optional. We currently have customers using version 9.4 and have set this option which is default when creating new jobs. From version 10...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana grouping in Analyze Calls for Smart Alert Event by blueprint template

If you jump from smart alert event to analytc by clicking on "Analyze Calls" the predefined grouping seems to be defaulted to 'by endpoint'.It would help a lot if grouping would be done by templated blueprint criteria.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 6 Not under consideration

Include VIO Servers in the PowerVM support

I think it is important to support VIO Servers in the PowerVM support. At least add an option to allow the user to include VIO Servers. We used to have data/recommendations for VIOS when we were using Densify, so we knew we need to right-sized the...

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists