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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?
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Improve Group and Policy Setup UX for Common Use Cases

Improve the policy setup UX for common use cases such as one-time host and/or storage migrations. Ideas mentioned by the customer included an option to auto-create the groups and policies required to execute a plan in production, and/or using a wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Show all database traces even if they all succeed

We opened a case for missing database calls and learned how Instana works for successful calls. The engineering team sent us the following quote, "Span batching in general doesn't consider the payloads. The rules are based on span metadata like d...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Focus precedence does not correspond to the logical processing sequence.

- The precedence of the elements in the source code should correspond the logical/visual processing sequence. - The elements should be resorted correspondingly on source code level.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 7 Planned for future release

The keyboard focus is hardly perceptible on the monitors.

- With the aid of CSS-properties the focus should be emphasized always clearly visibly, for example through a frame or inverting of script and background.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Some contents are not in the high contrast mode and/or not well perceptible.

- It should be guaranteed that the contrasts of all contents can be adapted with the Windows contrast adaptation. During the contrast adaptation all information would keep on should be readable for visually handicapped users. - The background of...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

The click faces of the buttons are too small in the WebGUI

- Graphic buttons should be designed with sufficient size (min. 20px * 20px). - At small icons and buttons should the click face of the element through "Padding - Information" being extended.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 6 Planned for future release

Add ability to have common database credentials for jobs

Currently when database jobs are implemented, the DB login credentials have to be entered for each and every job. In the event of a password change in the database, this can require substantial manual effort and coordination to address. Provide an...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Target Configuration Guide needs least privilege for Azure SQL

As a user I would like the least privileges required to configure an Azure SPN for managing Azure SQL Databases with Turbonomic, so that I can can avoid having to use built in roles and providing too many permissions.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Functionality already exists

To be able to see POST parameters in Instana

The URI of the service called from the screen in the package used by the customer is /cc/claimcenter.do. Currently we cannot check that "which function to call is written in the parameters in the POST".So it will be great to see POST parameters in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

MySQL storage used

Would like to get alerts for mysql storage capacity limit. Similar to built in event for cosmosdb "Azure CosmosDb storage capacity is getting closer to max capacity limit"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release