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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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Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 4 Future consideration

over-come event watcher limitation

Hello, Whenever file watcher event fires for the first time, relevant file should not be in server path, else IWA consider it as old file and fails to submit the job. through an IBM case we came to know that it is a limitation of IWA. Due to this ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add Proxy support for FTP Monitoring with KIS Agent in ITCAM for Transactions

We are using ISM Agent (KIS) in Version 07.40.02.03 to monitor several protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP We would start with FTP monitoring, but in our company ftp connections are restricted to connect over a give ftp proxy. I was really surprised ...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Export/Send Page from Action Details Dashboard

From the Action Details page (for a specific resource), there should be a way to export the dashboard view or email a read only link to a stakeholder who you wish to share the finding details, in order to seek approval to Execute Action. It's not ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Transform data on custom dasboards

It would be helpful if there is a possibility to transform Data in a Widget as some raw values aren't easy or helpful to visualize. As example, we get from a prometheus endpoint a metric providing raw values as bits, but in the Widget I would like...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Operations Insight - Create Patterns with Override config (NOI Related Events)

We would need to be able to create patterns when we override the Event Identity in the advanced tab of the Create New Configuration in the Configure Analytics portlet. Currently, it is limited to the Identifier column and while it works for certai...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

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, ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Control the self-signed certs generated by Kubernetes for its internal inter-node communication

Kubernetes (k3s) using self-signed SSL certs is a vulnerability and against the security policies of some of our customers. Require a procedure for third-party signed certs to be applied instead of the self-signed certs. This is currently not supp...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Not under consideration