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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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The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Add more info for the display of "No Data Available" to distinguish whether data is unavailable or there is no data.

For example, with"Nesessary Investment" widget, if there is none of Investment related actions, it shows "No Data Available"....but it should be showing as "No proposal" ... I would like to be able to distinguish between them. (Data should be avai...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Not under consideration

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to allow automated configuration of IdP (LDAP, SAML, OIDC,...)

Self Hosted Customers want a way to configure and setup instana in a completely automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Standard case is that you will also want to configure IdP in your tenant unit (e.g. LDAP, SAML, ...). This is not po...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to populate Tenant with a default in login page

In multi-tenant environments without OIDC, the tenant input is currently blank is not automatically populated with an available default. This could be set by administrators.
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Not under consideration

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Not under consideration