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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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Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps : Event Manager UI Concurrent Users

The concurrent users for the event manager shows max supported are 130 as per the documentation , For Etisalat we have over 1400 users and we need this feature immediately as we are planning for deployment that architecture should meet the custome...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Regex support for "Account" group filter

When selecting accounts (or Azure subscriptions) for a particular VM group, we sometimes want to create a large scope. We have over 160 accounts in our environment and we like to have a group scoped to non-production and production. To create thos...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Delivered

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
over 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Delivered

Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Cisco IWO API support

Support for API similiar to Turbonomic in order to report on costing, request approvals, automate workload exclusions, syncronize scheduling and other pipeline automation.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Delivered

Option to disable the fragmentation of tables present under tempdb database

Related to PMR case number TS008818511 The problem is locking on the “tempdb” due to checking the fragmentation of a table or view Per customer requirement, the data collection of only fragmentation should be skipped for tempdb database.
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

TADDM FP9 Supports Current DB2

TADDM 7.3.0.9 supports DB2 up to V11.5 GA, but this is already outdated. TADDM 7.3.0.9 needs to support the lates DB version 11.5 Fix Pack Mod 6 FP 0 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1102545#m6fp0
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered