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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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Ping-checks: Add option "HTTP-method"

Hello, we are using your ping checks and just want to implement them more efficiently. Therefore it would be very helpful if we would have an option for "HTTP method", e.g. GET, POST, PUT, and so on. And also the option "body" is needed then proba...
about 2 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
about 2 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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...
7 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.
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Being able to add AWS observer using IAM roles instead of access and secret keys.

Customers have polices to changes keys every 90 days. it will be nightmare to change observer keys every 90 days. it will would be nice to add AWS observer target using IAM role. This is a must requirement from DISH Networks to do a POC.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Deleting previous year dates from existing calenders

We have some calendars defined in TWS database.These calendars are updated each year for the new dates of each year.We need a feature to delete the old entries for those existing calendars.This is raised as agreed in PMR case no TS005053976
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

How to change the default domain name of the common-ui to a custom domain name

How to change the default domain name of the common-ui for watsonaiops event manager (netcool-<noi_instance_name>-clusterdomain) to a custom domain name like watsonaiops.stc.com.sa for example.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

Add Blade Center to TADDM Integration Plugin

TADDM ServiceNow Integration plugin does not currently support sending BladeCenter (chassis, management modules, blades) to ServiceNow.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Not under consideration