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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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Probe to connect to mailbox using Graph API

We have a requirement to monitor the mailbox and generate the alert. As per the current Probe functionality it only supports Microsoft EWS API to connect to mailbox. Barclays does not support EWS any more, it only supports Graph API. Also EWS is g...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.
6 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Shadows jobs' folders

When the name of jobstream definition contains a folder in workstation name or jobstream name, the associated shadow job goes into error state. Could you add these folders, please?
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - conditional logic in the runbook/automation editor

Why is it useful? - Right now RBA allows no custom conditional logic to chain together runbooks/automations, which is handy to build end-to-end automation workflow. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of RBA, everyone would be able to build...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Data Retention after Out of Memory error.

IBM Support Ticket TS014348006 describes a scenario where data in Instana is removed after a JVM on a host suffers an Out of Memory error. We can understand why data would not be available from the time of the error and until service is restored, ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

The capacity values are different from temporarily created groups (by Turbonomic) VS groups created by users

This Idea is being raised from the bug ticket opened in Turbonomic JIRA- https://jsw.ibm.com/browse/TRB-52963. This bug came up from JPMC. For example, there are a total of 8 hosts in the entire environment, the capacity of memory is only 3 TB/hos...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Synthetics tests versioning

It would be great to automatically version Synthetic tests, so that users can scroll, see changes, and if necessary revert to older versions of tests and their configuration
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration