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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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Allow group creation whose filter parameter is another group

We have a large push for expedited rightsizing actions, but we have lots of unique workload types as expected of large corporations. App types can include clustered, HA, reverse SLO, and more. These complications disallow us from simply creating a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Edit the evaluation granularity for a smart alert

The minimum evaluation granularity for a smart alert is limited at 5 mins, We need to change it so that we get alerts related to slow calls etc which may not persist for more than 5 minutes. Below is a real time scenario. When will a person be ale...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Need API call to run the already configured NFVD load jobs

Its needed by the client to perform LCM takeover during regression testing
7 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Needs more information

Enhance Peregrine Gateway to accept a Change Number when the Ticket Number is not available.

Peregrine Gateway not updating Omnibus events in some cases. We have integration between Netcool/Omnibus and HPSM as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSSHTQ/hpscgw-pdf.pdf Whenever we send some event from Omnibus to HPSM through Peregri...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Adding Connection metrics in IBM MQ Channel while creating Instana Events

Connection metric should be included while defining event for IBM MQ Channel. Giving the user privilege to define event to monitor connections made to a channel.
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Use the more secure Azure Managed Identity instead of SAS token when authenticating SevOne DataBus (SDB) against a Kafka enabled Event Hub

Currently, our SevOne DataBus (SDB) feed is sending to an Azure Event Hub as the Kafka Consumer endpoint. Authentication relies on a SAS token (SharedAccessKey). The use of SAS tokens as an authentication mechanism is proved to be less secure, and...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Integration with Microsoft Teams

We would love it if your were able to integrate TP with Microsoft teams which would help support us in trying to reduce the amount of different areas for conversations document storage etc. and more importantly tracking/project feedback.
over 4 years ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Planned for future release