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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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Cancel a "cancel pending" state in the current plan

Possible to Cancel a Job in "Cancel Pending" state in the current plan because for some reason, a couple of hour after the switch plan, we want it finally to run.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

Selective access to logs

Similar to Applications, Infrastructure, etc. It should be possible to restrict access to logs based on specific criteria. Ideally logs would be filtered according to permissions on Applications + Infrastructure. Additionally It'd be great to eith...
9 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TS015241046 - nco-p-patrol the probe not supported on zLinux

The customer "american express" is moving all Netcool to zLinux, when we try to install nco-p-patrol, it's not supporting. Please could you rebuild the probe to zLinux also? CC8WCEN NetcoolOMNIbus 8 Certified Probe for BMC PATROL V9 (nco-p-patrol-...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

ServiceAccount GCP Helm

Hello, We would like to use Serviceaccount annotation for GCP in Helm Instana Here is a merge request. https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/pull/16 Best Regards
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

SLES15 s390x Compatibility

We run our TADDM environment on SystemZ (S390x) SLES12/15. Looking for gaining ceritifcation and support for the tool on this platform.
9 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Setup a NOI / AIOps application self monitoring solution that can be integrate with RBA to try to solve the issue

Why is it useful? It is useful because there are not specific monitoring solution for that environment. It needs to setup many custom solutions that could be changed with the new version of tool. Who would benefit from it ? All customers that have...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow error logs to be viewed on the Turbonomic SaaS UI

When the probe target connection fails, the SaaS version cannot investigate the cause. For example, if the connection to GCP fails, the response from GCP will show the missing privileges. However it is not possible to check the message in Turbonom...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Not under consideration