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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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Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Provide a way to disable side car action creation

Today, Turbonomic create automatically groups for sidecar workloads and a policy with recommend only actions. Since Turbonomic can't apply those changes, it's just informational. The problem is customer has thousands of actions that is polluting t...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Implement Agent Request Buffering to Prevent Metric Outages

Dear Instana Product Team, I would like to propose the implementation of a request buffering mechanism within the Instana agent to mitigate and avoid metric outages during periods of network instability or high latency. Problem Statement Currently...
28 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter

Title: Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter Detail: We want Instana to capture IMS calls which are maded from client side with WM EntireX Adapter. We would like that client adapter to be supported from version 10.7.0.21.1826 and above.
28 days ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Submitted

Encryption of credentials in configuration

It would be desirable if the credentials configured in Alert Channels were not displayed in plain text. This makes it possible for anyone with access to Instana to go into the configuration and see the credentials (username and password) in plain ...
28 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler

Monitoring specific to kubeapiserver, kube-controll-manager and scheduler. PMR (TS016949061)
29 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Both the v2 and v3 API's require customer facing documentation that covers the rate limits for the various endpoints contained where in.

Information such a rate limits for updates to API is a critical oversight in the SevOne published documentation. Customer uses api for a significant portion of SevOne functionality for large updates e.g. device adds, interface description updates ...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Is a defect

keep infrastructure metric history on activation of beeInstana

Please refere to TS015999019 Missing his torical Data after migration to beeinstana
about 2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

Place event id in alert header

Currently there is no id in email alert header. Please make e.g. event id part of email alert header to support automated and human processing
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review