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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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Generic Webhook integration for ticketing

The existing integrations for external incident management systems are a bit thin. Essentially only ServiceNow is available. To make AIOps minimally useful in an environment where operators are using a corporate Incident management system, not AIO...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Meta data field of 'project_labels' not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration

We are able to upload the column named 'project_labels' using the Google Cloud Platform Connector on Datalink Classic. The meta data field however from GCP of 'project_labels' is not available for CLDY(CDI) to CT integration in FDM. Business reaso...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

The "Task" should be customizable in process defintion

As all other term in the process definiton the task should also be customizable. As all other workitems it should be possible to give it in a process another term. Now the term "Task" will be translated according to your language settings, which c...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Kubernetes Install Hardening RO-Root Filesystem

Currently, CP4AIOPs does not use a read-only filesystem when deployed in a Kubernetes environment, see following from NSA advisory on hardening. "By default, containers are permitted mostly unrestricted execution within their own context. A cyber ...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow flexibility in creating new work item types and linking them to other work item types

I would like be able to create new work item types by myself. Then I would like to be able to link them e.g. as custom fields to other work item types.Example: I am using Requirement management in TP but requirements in TP do not have any linking ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Under review

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Under review

Allow for Key Milestones to Appear on Roadmap Views

It would be helpful to have the option to display key milestones on epic roadmaps so we can see what the milestones for that specific epic are. Currently, we only have the ability to show milestones with the standard milestone in the system, but t...