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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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Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Future consideration

Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI

Provide capability to enable two-factor authentication for DWC and Remote CLI, e.g. AD authentication and SecureID passcode
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement to Scope-based Event Grouping

Enhancement to the scope-based event grouping extension to allow customization on the minimum number of traps for a synthetic event to be created. For example having grouping on a single trap doesn't really provide much benefit to end users. Addit...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

TEPS connection to DB2 database over TLS

System: TEPSActor: User need new featureTo allow TEPS configuration to connect to a TLS enabled DB2 databaseDescription:Currently, TEPS only allows connection to non-TLS database. However, when the DB2 database is configured with TLS, it only allo...
over 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Planned for future release

Use traditional Netcool OMNIbus icon in Connectors

Netcool is a legend! Give credit to its history and give us back our beloved Netcool OMNIbus icon. The large user base will be pleased and grateful.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Events (Syslog and SNMP Traps) parsing tool - Drag & Drop Capabilities

Why is it useful? Existing and new customers spend a lot of time doing the parsing of events received by generic probes (as syslog, snmp, glf, etc) since those include a generic rules file. However, most of them have custom Object Servers Columns ...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review