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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Provide versioning for text mappings added to Generic Webhook connectors and Observers

When adding text in the "Configure event mapping window" within a Generic Webhook connector, there is no tracking changes or history kept from previous versions of the text mapping. The same goes for certain observers, like the Dynatrace observer,...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow right click action in Alerts page to escalate an alert or group of alerts into an incident

In CP4AIOps 4.3, incidents can only be created off of certain policies created under Automations. If an operator has subject matter expertise on specific alerts and knows they should be escalated to the level of an incident, they should be able to...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Group Template Modify/Delete - Display user friendly message on UI

When Group Template is deleted/modified/enabled or disabled, user had no clue that re-computing is happening in the backend. User might go ahead and perform another action on the same template, while in background there is still consolidation happ...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Edit name of resource group after it's created

Once you create a resource group for topology resources in the UI, you can't go back and edit the name of the resource group. If you have to change the name of the resource group for a variety of reasons, you have to recreate the resource group fr...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

Turbonomic uses APIs. We can contribute to Azure API throttling. How do we manage and minimize this impact.

Many clients have multiple applications using API calls in Azure Subscriptions. Security Apps, Compliance Apps, APMS (like Dynatrace) , Terraform, and our IBM apps - Turbonomic ARM and parkmycloud (PMC). Whilst Turbonomic may not be the main consu...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3

Topology Manager Observer for Ericsson Orchestrator

Customer RFP to replace Ericson CNEX is asking for a service assurance solution that includes events, performance and topology and the only missing part is topology.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration