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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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Document the recommended number of events and smart alerts the SaaS by default can support

The information would be useful when development of a solution in which is a replacement of an existing APM. The primary benefit would be to not pick a path only to find out after a large time investment that that option is not able to support the...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

TADDM integration with Ansible

Need an integration between TADDM and Ansible to support discovery of target endpoints (both Linux and Windows servers) located behind a firewall in the DMZ. IBM had previously suggested the use of BigFix for this task, but BigFix is non-strategic...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

High Availability for the JDBC2 Gateway

The customer would like to ensure that gateways are running all the time and if the primary server [gateway] goes down then secondary should be available.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Supporting the Monitoring Agent for HTTP Server on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

I checked the KHU module for HTTP Server monitoring and found that when executing ./http_server-agent.sh start, a file named `khu.opt.IBMIHS.conf.httpd.conf` is automatically created, but it should be `khu.opt.HTTPServer.conf.httpd.conf`.
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 4 Is a defect

Allow for selecting multiple blocks for bulk operations

Allow selection of multiple blocks to allow for copy, clone or delete operations.
5 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
about 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

ITP Plan Specific Roles & RUles

Would be helpful if there were specific Roles & Rules tied to each ITP Plan rather than just one set for all ITP Plans
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release