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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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Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
about 1 year ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
3 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 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...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Exclude traces from Java´s endpoints.

Optimizing data ingestion in Instana, customer needs to exclude tracing from Java´s endpoint,
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Change commitment portfolio to not show incomplete data

Savings Portfolio - daily savings and utilization graphs need to avoid using a red bar for the current day (early morning?). This seemed to me to be a warning to be researched, but instead it was just that the current day's data had not been fully...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Customisable legend in AIOps Topology Viewer

Looking at the screenshot attached, we are using some custom background and border colors. Within the topology view, there is a legend, which explains to the users, what the icons and colors in a topology visualisation mean. Having a customisable ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

The support of ENodeB devices into ITNM via the Samsung USM collector.

In our commitment to fostering an inclusive and forward-thinking technological environment, I respectfully request the integration of support for eNodeB devices—managed via the Samsung USM network element manager platform, into the IBM Tivoli Netw...
2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Improve currently non-intuitive Right-Sizing policies and ROI functionality

1) When creating a right-sizing policy, clicking "Save and Run" will only generate tickets according to the schedule, rather than to run the policy immediately. This is confusing. If I set a Daily schedule and click Save and Run it will generate a...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 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...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release