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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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Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
5 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Planned for future release

Kubernetes Install Hardening RO-Root Filesystem

Currently, CP4AIOPs does not use a read-only filesystem when deployed in a Kubernetes environment, see following from NSA advisory on hardening. "By default, containers are permitted mostly unrestricted execution within their own context. A cyber ...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

MS Graph probe

Vodafone Spain is using the Email probe with POP3 protocol to read a mailbox. They want to migrate that mailbox to Office 365 and they need to use another protocol to read the mailbox. They cannot use the EWS probe because it has a SOCKS proxy, wh...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Plan start date should also give an option to select next year & month

It helps users to look at previous years actuals and perform forecast in the current plan.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 9 and higher version

We need a support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 9 and higher version
5 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Action Persistence score

The Turbonomic ideal is that Customers trust our actions – and automate so that those Cloud VM scale actions happen automatically – perhaps every night. This is NOT what happens in the real world. Customers or App Teams have problems either trusti...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

instana saas hosted agent to support aws emr serverless plarform

need to add aws emr serveress platform. it is not supprted based on following link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-installing-configuring-serverless
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Allow Tag Names and Values to be searched by typing rather than death scrolling

When creating a group using Tag filters, there is no easy way to find the tag value you are looking for without scrolling through hundreds of rows, for every single tag (usually there are several needed for a single group) on every group for every...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release