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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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Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

filter criteria TDWC

On TDWC Console, to filter the Jobstreams in one views? when we create a new task , and on the 'General Filter' Page, under the 'Filter Criteria', Is there anyway he can specify more than one Jobstreams in the 'Job Stream Name' Text box so that he...
over 13 years ago in Workload Automation 6 Planned for future release

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 0 Needs more information

Documentation around Openshift Operator management

Current Documentation does not cover managment of Subscriptions Install Plans Managing upgrades via Subscriptions and Managing the Operator deployment eg offline repo extra config eg CPU limits or custom build of operator to support hardend build.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Improve CNEA Policy UI

the current version of policy UI does not allow to administer policies properly. there is no search, no chance to get an overview, etc. If the system detects a lot of policies, (> 1000) which is most time the case, the UI becomes unusable
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

MessageBus XML gateway: Custom HTTPHeaders property

The MessageBus XML gateway should offer a Property for usage in HTTP Transport (in httpTransport.properties) which allows custom HTTP header fields to be defined, which then get sent out in the outgoing HTTP requests. So, What is asked is: A prope...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Message Bus Probe basic auth user expanded

The basic authentication user account only allows for a single username and password. This might work well in a very small company, but gets more challenging in a larger organization. What would make this more useful is to allow the basic auth use...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Ability for RBAC to enable Objects on Team Scope

Use-case: To allow more flexible rules for allowing people access to specific entities it would be great to instead of selecting the entities (app perspectives, namespace, etc.) one by one, to allow a query builder approach in which we can use log...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Manage configuration.yaml with Secret

We would like to monitor EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on Instana. As a prerequisite, Instana runs only agents in SaaS deployment format in an OpenShift environment. EDB Postgres for Kubernetes runs in the same OpenShift environment. Referring ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration