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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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Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
5 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Train events to identify event anomalies

Events are received continuously and have a corresponding/expected payload which is used to perform important backend processing, e.g. policies will trigger incident creation based on field values, events are grouped based on scope values settings...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Update Java clients such as Administrator GUI to enable authentication with ObjectServer using user account passwords with more than 30 characters.

FixPack 24 enabled non-java based clients to utilize passwords having more than 30 characters when authenticating with an ObjectServer. This is great for probes/gateways however it is preferred to enable the java-based clients (e.g. Administrator)...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Expand All the Parent Child Grouping Alarms in WebGUI Event Viewer GUI

Our NOC team is looking for an option to expand all the parent child grouped alarms in single click. As of now, they are expanding single set of parent child group as per their need. If we have one option to use expand/collapse the grouping alarms...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Send alert config id in alert notification

We are currently struggeling to correlate, which alert config has caused a notification being sent to our notification channel. It would be helpful to also receive a deep link to the alert config.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Place event id in alert header

Currently there is no id in email alert header. Please make e.g. event id part of email alert header to support automated and human processing
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review