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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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Would like Instana to support the writing of the agent logs to the syslog system - See support request 30210

We have both aix and linux agents. We had both agents successfully writing to our syslog for quite some time (> 9 months). Recently (perhaps 6 weeks ago), after we upgraded our agents, the aix agent no longer writes to the syslog. The linux age...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Single pane to view all restarted containers and pods for a deployment

At present there is no single view to see the graphs related to contianers those are created after restart of pods in a deployment. As these all containers belong to same deployment they should show restart-event and continuous graph related to co...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Not under consideration

Need to check the compatibility version for weblogic agent for Tivoli yj.( in case of weblogic upgrade from 12C to 14.1)

We are planning to upgrade weblogic application from 12C to 14.1. So We need to ensure the compatibility version of the Tivoli agent (yj) for weblogic.kindly provide me the compatible version and suggest us.
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Planned for future release

Instana on Openshift to use default ingress certificate

Hi, We install instana on openshift on my customer environment, customer wants that instana to use default ingress certificate for itself and not give tls.key and tls.crt files again on instana installation on openshift container platform.Because ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

new field to monitor jobs on the plan

Create a new editable column on DWC (E.g. Monitor Job/ Jobstream) where operators and users are able to edit and put notes for each job. Today similar functionally exists on TWS/z, field "Operation Text" where it can be informed some description.
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Openshift GPU Monitoring

In instana APM tool there is no information about gpus working on redhat openshift. It will be very useful to monitor gpu metrics, info and utilization data for openshift clusters connected to instana.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa. Currently this type of action is blocked due to a Turbo limitation not a VMware limitation. This is needed when customers have to migr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager) topology view of properties change , and easy way to see what is the change.

The topology view of resources shown when a change of properties has been detected but on 3.5.1 we have to compare the JSON definition of the resource of two different periods in order to see what was the change, in some cases the changes are more...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Review (readonly) permission on roles definition WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager). The customer is looking to have a READONLY on stories,alerts,runbooks permission for some user, on WatsonAIOPS 3.5.1

We are doing a project with Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1. During role definition was not possible to define a role that allow only view( read-only) on stories, alerts, and runbooks. The most restrictive role for alerts/stories/runbooks was allo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Capability to create custom roles in addition to the available standard roles

ICP is missing custom role creation option as per APIC 2018.4.1.0. It will give admins the flexibility to create the purposely build custom roles to cater the need of individual teams. Example: New role with the standard viewer plus access to the...
about 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists