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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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Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Fix Actions Taken list on the Top Accounts page.

When Navigating from the home page, to Cloud, Top Accounts, Show All, there is a column for number of actions available. (in the old UI) In the new UI this useful column was eliminated. Whether viewing in the UI or downloading that list, the Actio...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Functionality already exists

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Alarm Grouping Strategy based on assigned weight to the alarms

Assign weights to alarms within each group. The alarm with the highest composite weight score in a group becomes the primary root cause candidate. Use key fields from this highest-weighted alarm (like resource type, component, error patterns) to c...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Functionality already exists

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Functionality already exists

support on-prem SQL Server

currently on-prem SQL are not supported, but some of our customer still have on-prem SQL server
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Functionality already exists

Add dynamic value tags to alerts in non-global custom payloads

Hi, Can you please add ability to choose dynamic tag values for non-global custom payloads on alerts? Currently this is only available for global custom payload (see attached picture). Best regards,ldrascic
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Date Range Toggle Month to Quarters in Cloud Total Cost

We often show our Cloud Total Cost reports to Finance and lead engineers throughout the year. We would like to have the option to toggle between either showing Months in the Date Range dropdown in CTC, or Quarters. This way we get the flexibility ...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Functionality already exists