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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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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Webservice Job: Pooling the execution status in the same webservice jobs

Hi team, We are using webservice jobs run various seeded jobs using the webservice plugins. In second step we are defining an executable job to fetch the report id/request id from the XM response. In last step we are doing the conditional checks i...
about 22 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Allow user to specify proxy address in HTTP action

State Street is trying to access their in-house runbook automation system through a HTTP action in CP4AIOps, however the HTTP action times out during the TLS handshake. We confirmed that the rba-as pod could reach the endpoint via curl command lev...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Possibility to trim the UTC +/- details and display only the city detail in the MWM new entry creation page.

Our operations team are getting confused by the UTC + / - details before the city names in the timezone drop-down from the MWM new entry creation page. For example Eastern timezone was showing as UTC -5 prior to day light saving start and now show...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Option to export MWM table contents to excel/flat file.

Our operations team need to review the maintenance entries often on ad-hoc basis. Its not practical to ask them to copy paste from the page or export from the ImpactDB everytime when they may need it because they cant involve Impact administrators...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
2 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under consideration

Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review