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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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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

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade TEPS to Websphere 9.X

Our company is restricting Websphere 8.5.X and is requiring we move all apps to 9.X, due to TEPS being integrated we can not upgrade it ourselves and require an update to the TEPS install be made.
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Future consideration

Allow for scaling actions that do not block move actions

As a user I would like the ability to configure Turbonomic to ignore scaling actions when consumers shop for providers in the Market, so that I can enable WPA/Move automation before I enable automated scaling actions and not impact any move actions.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Quick Add : URL functionality

Question: I am looking for a way in which to surface a URL in the "quick add" funcitonality.  I am thinking of creating a custom field and then using a mashup to add the URL and display it in quick add...is this possible? is there possib...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Turbonomic on EKS with Turbonomic provided ingress and TLS termination at Load Balancer - Documentation is incomplete/inaccurate

Scenario: Customer is deploying Turbonomic platform on EKS cluster with Turbonomic provided nginx ingress. It needs to terminate TLS at the ELB. Issue with Documentation: The provided documentation at "https://github.com/turbonomic/t8c-install/wik...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 5 Not under consideration

Multicloud Manager supports helm v3, not only helm v2.

Now I feel Multicloud Manager can deploy and manage lifecycle remote cluster's Application only from helm v2 chart. My potential customer, OMRON (large precision equipment manufacturer in Japan), expect they can deploy and manage their helm v3 cha...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

SNMPv3 Engine ID changes

Incorporate the SNMPv3 engine id CHANGE natively within the product
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Pak for AIOPs Policy export/import feature doesn't exist

The customer installed Event Manager (NOI 1.6.8) on Openshift (hybrid deployment). They noticed that it is very difficult to review policies without import/export feature. Below is their feedback: "We discussed about an enhancement request of Wats...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release