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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?
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...

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Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

In the Alleviate Pressure Plan the for the cold clusters the sorting order should be reversed to put green clusters at the top.

When utilizing the Alleviate Pressure Plan first a hot cluster is selected which is either a red, yellow, or orange cluster - which are sorted to the top for easy selection. On the next selection to select a cold cluster the sort order is the same...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Custom Template Sensor - Support pushing scripts to the target server before running executeCommandWithTimeout

There seems to be no way of pushing scripts to the target server before running executeCommandWithTimeout. We have solved this on Linux by code in the sensor.py by rsyncing scripts to the target server. This should be standard feature, so adding s...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Capability to create custom roles in addition to the available standard roles

ICP is missing custom role creation option as per APIC 2018.4.1.0. It will give admins the flexibility to create the purposely build custom roles to cater the need of individual teams. Example: New role with the standard viewer plus access to t...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

IWS webhook capability

To have a EDWA action to trigger a custom webhook, nowadays modern alerting systems like Pager Duty / GNM even Netcool allows system to send alerts via API call.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enabling Java Profiling for Applications running on Kubernetes

Currently, we only have Instana AutoProfile to support for Java applications which is running on EC2 instacnes. However we want similar feature for an application which is running on Kubernetes hosts as a conatiner application.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Functionality already exists

Installation Process should also include using yaml to install

This is to provide an installation path when using the console is not an option because of customer security restrictions. Also to make changes after the installation you use yaml. Also if you have to make adjustments from the defaults then it's a...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Have actions visibility adjustable at user/group level

Option to turn on/off actions types for users . Would be a nice feature to have the ability to turn on/off action "types" for each users . Example = Might have a user/group (advisor) that we only want them to see sizing actions = (turn on) sizing ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

NOI Network Health Dashboard does not support Load Balancer rul properly

This is happening on NOI 1.4.1.When launching Network Health Dashboard, the Percentage Availability Widget is not able to display data and it is showing Data retrieval error in our Environment. Further checking with IBM Support and found that it i...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists