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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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Cloudability should be able to automatically archive deleted accounts

Cloudability has access to our billing account and to the API to query additional information. There should be a capability within Cloudability to automatically archive accounts that do not exist no more. Currently those accounts are grouped toget...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Need to support Oracle LDAP

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Oracle LDAP as a corporate identity provider system. Instana allows users in, however it doesn't allow to map groups with Instana groups for centralised user management. Customer has found that Instana includ...
11 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
11 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Under review

Add Support for additional hypervisor Proxmox Virtual Environment

All VMware customer are currently evaluation options to mitigate the effect of the price hikes for the VMware products after VMware was acquired by Broadcom. One option usually evaluated is migration to another virtualization platform/hypervisor. ...

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Make regionMap available through target addition page

Today when adding an AWS target, is the customer's SCP policies do not allow access to all regions (which is the case for 75%+ customers), they need to edit the regionMap to specify which regions they support. This has to be done through swagger a...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

multi-tenency and multi-chatops channel support for Cloud Pak for AIOps

We have been discussing these topics with the WW AIOps team for some time now. Based on what I've heard, multi-tenancy and multi-ChatOps channel functionalities are part of the product backlog but do not have a specific timeline yet. As the client...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Ability to sort/filter an entity/group's Automation Workflow 'result of policy' table by the value column

Today, if you navigate to a VM > Policies > Automation Workflow, you'll see "Attribute", "Value", and "Active Policy". You have to read through them row by row. If we're able to add the functionality to sort and filter the table, we can quic...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
22 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review