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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Provide versioning for text mappings added to Generic Webhook connectors and Observers

When adding text in the "Configure event mapping window" within a Generic Webhook connector, there is no tracking changes or history kept from previous versions of the text mapping. The same goes for certain observers, like the Dynatrace observer,...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow right click action in Alerts page to escalate an alert or group of alerts into an incident

In CP4AIOps 4.3, incidents can only be created off of certain policies created under Automations. If an operator has subject matter expertise on specific alerts and knows they should be escalated to the level of an incident, they should be able to...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Group Template Modify/Delete - Display user friendly message on UI

When Group Template is deleted/modified/enabled or disabled, user had no clue that re-computing is happening in the backend. User might go ahead and perform another action on the same template, while in background there is still consolidation happ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Edit name of resource group after it's created

Once you create a resource group for topology resources in the UI, you can't go back and edit the name of the resource group. If you have to change the name of the resource group for a variety of reasons, you have to recreate the resource group fr...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Manage configuration.yaml with Secret

We would like to monitor EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on Instana. As a prerequisite, Instana runs only agents in SaaS deployment format in an OpenShift environment. EDB Postgres for Kubernetes runs in the same OpenShift environment. Referring ...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Ping-checks: Add option "HTTP-method"

Hello, we are using your ping checks and just want to implement them more efficiently. Therefore it would be very helpful if we would have an option for "HTTP method", e.g. GET, POST, PUT, and so on. And also the option "body" is needed then proba...
almost 2 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
almost 2 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

DWC: view more dependencies

In DWC 9.5 we want to see more levels of dependencies when clicking the Dependencies button. Currently we only see direct dependencies and it is not enough. Ideally, there would be an option to choose how many levels of dependencies we want to see...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration