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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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Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under consideration

Report/Service access based on Parent - Child Entity mapping

Parent-Child entity mapping should allow selective access to services/reports based on the authorized list of child entities instead of providing access to all child entities.
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - execute runbooks against multiple targets in one API call

Why is it useful? - We have many thousands of servers where script automations are used, we'd like to hit multiple servers in one API call to execute a runbook - right now it's one API call per server (target) Who would benefit from it? - All cust...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

RBAC for IBM Runbook Automation (RBA)

Why is it useful? - This would make the RBA more secure, scalable, robust, and enables secure self-service automation capability. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this, particularly security c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

RESTapi performance tuning

Customer is using the REST API to verify that the Device IDs and Object IDs they have associated with the telecom inventory in their application is accurate. To do that, they are requesting about 4800 objects from the API. POST /api/v2/devices/obj...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration

changePassword required for IWS 9.5

In earlier version of IWS/TWS the product supplied a changePassword.sh script that could be used to change the password of the users and made all of the necessary changes to WebSphere etc. In 9.5 it seems a step backwards that this now has to be p...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Add incident creation policies based on a specified number of alerts

Administrators should have the ability to create incident policies that specify conditions on number of alerts associated to an incident. For example, if incident policies are triggered only off of alert severity, a large number of incidents could...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration