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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...
6 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.
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

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?
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

we need feature to select alerts and export them to excel file

When we have several alerts on the same device or location we generate a report/excel file with all the related alerts and attach it to the Remedy Incident. Right now we have to do it manually. So we need feature to select alerts and export them t...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Export Alerts and Incidents through one or more kafka channel/topic(s)

To continuously be able to export alerts and incidents to external systems, an export mechanism based on kafka is suggested.
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

TSA takeover by force sequence change request

TSA timeout occurred between DB2 servers (#1 Primary and #2 Secondary) , after this timeout #2 Secondary issued 'takeover by force' command to #1 Primary.Then, #2 became Primary and acknowledged #1 Primary was active (split brain) because the conn...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Upgrade TEPS to Websphere 9.X

Our company is restricting Websphere 8.5.X and is requiring we move all apps to 9.X, due to TEPS being integrated we can not upgrade it ourselves and require an update to the TEPS install be made.
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Future consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration