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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 the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2

Request to be able to get a list of all currently active users in WebGUI from CLI

From CLI to be able to generate a list of all the active users currently in WebGUI. A list of all currently active users would be added to a log when run or when scheduled. Allowing the Admins to see and log who was online and when.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host they are running on.

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host which each VM is running on. One way to do this is to add the host name column on the "List of Virtual Machines" tab view. It would be nice i...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

GCP Stackdriver Events(Alerts) ingestion to IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps

As per IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps v4.3.0 documentation there is no support for GCP Stackdriver for Event(Alert) ingestion. Client is interested to know if such integration is possible, or on Cloud Pak for AIOps roadmap. References: https://cloud.goog...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 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

Run cycle based on month

Hi In TWS z/OS we can define run cycle based on Monthname ( January .... ) It's not possible on TWSD Best regards
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release