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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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Provision to export the topology Data into Excel from Topology Viewer page.

Topology Viewer ASM page has options to export the topology to PNG, SVG Format. Need an option to export the topology to Excel.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

We would like to have the Azure RG level CO2 Emission details within Turbo Sustainability Dashboard

Hello Team, We have gone through the Turbo Sustainability dashboard which includes good amount of info in it. We would like to also have a widget which includes the Azure RG level Emission details. This will give a complete picture of our Emission...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Planned for future release

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Under review

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Planned for future release

I want the SNMP Working Yes/No filter to be real-time - not based on the last successful discovery

When I set the SNMP Yes / Working No filter, I expect the result to be accurate - not based on the result of the last successful discovery. I should not have to manually check the results of the filter to see if they accurate.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration