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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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Documentation around Openshift Operator management

Current Documentation does not cover managment of Subscriptions Install Plans Managing upgrades via Subscriptions and Managing the Operator deployment eg offline repo extra config eg CPU limits or custom build of operator to support hardend build.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

OpenSearch Support

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Topology Manager Observer for Ericson Software Defined Infrastructure

Customer RFP to replace Ericson CNEX is asking for a service assurance solution that includes events, topology and the only missing part is topology.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Need instana support for kubernetes traefik

Many customers using kubernetes tracfik as their web server in China mainland. We need instana support for Kubernete tracfik to development business.
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Would like Centralized Agent upgrade process to support deployment of iFixes

Currently, if we want to deploy an iFix for our FTA/DA agents we have to create an install script and then remote into each server and manually apply the iFix.It would be nice if installing an iFix was as easy as deploying a FixPack via the centra...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

How to change the default domain name of the common-ui to a custom domain name

How to change the default domain name of the common-ui for watsonaiops event manager (netcool-<noi_instance_name>-clusterdomain) to a custom domain name like watsonaiops.stc.com.sa for example.
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

Add the ability to click out of an "x-able" box by clicking in a greyed out part of the window

It'd be nice ux for you to be able to click in any of the grey areas and it'll close out the window you had open. the x still exists as another option to click out of a config window. if there are changes when a user clicks out of the window, then...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Support for Azure App Service Reserved Instances

Turbonomic doesn't currently discover Azure App Service reserved instances thus may raise actions to scale down for savings due to under utilisation.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation.

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation. This scenario is potentially very usefull for customer (it has on-prem installation).
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release