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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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automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 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 ...
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Log message body information sent via OpenTelemetry

Forwarding Golang and Nodejs application logs which are deployed in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to Instana agent or Instana backend via fluentbit using OpenTelemetry exporter
11 months ago in Instana / Logging 7 Not under consideration

Probe to connect to mailbox using Graph API

We have a requirement to monitor the mailbox and generate the alert. As per the current Probe functionality it only supports Microsoft EWS API to connect to mailbox. Barclays does not support EWS any more, it only supports Graph API. Also EWS is g...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Support new families at GCP target - C4 and N4

Customers and Magazine Luiza started to question when we are supporting actions considering the new GCP families: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/compute-and-infrastructure-enhancements-at-next24 N4 and C4, also AMD VMs.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Exporting the list of agents including FQDN and related informaiton

1. How to export all agents, host FQDN, agent version and related informaiton using GUI? 2.Is there a API that I can use to export the Agent version, FQDN, agent-status into a file
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

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

Provide a means of identifying/managing policies with no/empty scope groups

As a user I would like the ability to identify policies that no longer have a scope group associated or groups that no longer have any members, so that I can ensure my automation is being enforced correctly as well as reduce "clutter".
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

DWC to use session persistence configuration

DWC 9.5 currently doesn't support http session persistence even thought the WebSphere Liberty documentation said it does https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQTP_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.doc/ae/twlp_admin_session_persistence.html
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration