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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
28 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Submitted

Data Insight Maps : Support for multiple data sources in the same Map.

Larger customers have their network performance data collected and stored using multiple NMS Clusters. It would be deeply beneficial to support adding nodes/paths to a DI Map that represent devices/objects managed across multiple NMS Clusters. Thi...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Capture full IP for Instana EUM session tracing

By default, IP masking protects end-user privacy by masking (anonymizing) segments of IP addresses in the Instana backend. Customer want to get the full IP of session for Real user monitoring session tracing.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

ASM Fabric and Tenant Jobs/Listeners to connect to all HA ACI controllers

Hello, This RFE is for ASM capability of a single Fabric and Tenant Job/Listener to connect to all ACI HA controllers. We have three APIC controllers in high availability mode. Currently, ASM ACI observer jobs/listeners only support on APIC contro...
about 1 month ago in IBM AIOps Insights 0 Submitted

ITNM Configuration Utility - Extend Database Finder to have GUI configuration

Please extend the Database Finder to have a GUI based configuration so that it's easier to define custom databases, columns and attributes to enable data retrieval as a feed to Discovery.
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Connector: Manual synchronization of approvals towards SNOW

Hello, With current implementation, all the recommendations generated by Turbo are synchronized towards SNOW and CRs are generated. This can cause "pollution" as we would like to see in SNOW only the recommendations we know they will be approved b...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Under review

while ASM NFVD observer to consume V2 LCM message or from API, If we receive response without vm name name of the vm need to be updated by vm-id

As per standard SLO 3 LCM message format, we are not receiving the vm-name, so we need to update vm-id in the name attribute
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review