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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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Optimise Edgetype mapping on ServiceNow Observer

in ServiceNow Observer, there's need for a bit more intelligence in picking the right default edgetype for relationships .but there seem to be better alternatives Edgetypes available, some relationships are being set to "connectedTo" when there se...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add support for Tomcat Server Datasources using the Oracle UCP Driver

This would provide additional visibility into Tomcat applications that use the Oracle UCP datasource. Today there is no visibility for datasource usage on Tomcat servers using the UCP driver. This makes it difficult to correlate pool usage/availab...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Manage configuration.yaml with Secret

We would like to monitor EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on Instana. As a prerequisite, Instana runs only agents in SaaS deployment format in an OpenShift environment. EDB Postgres for Kubernetes runs in the same OpenShift environment. Referring ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Idea: The password should not be mandatory for user creation if login is possible only with SSO

On our productive instance (https://cariad.tpondemand.com/), users can login only using the Single Sign On functionality. That means that they do not use the Login Name and Password to get access to Targetprocess since they are authenticated ...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Control the self-signed certs generated by Kubernetes for its internal inter-node communication

Kubernetes (k3s) using self-signed SSL certs is a vulnerability and against the security policies of some of our customers. Require a procedure for third-party signed certs to be applied instead of the self-signed certs. This is currently not supp...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Not under consideration

Support for containerized MDM and BKMDM on two different networks

Currently, creating two domain manager docker containers in one host machine, but on different docker networks, does not work. These DMs do not connect. Would like to have official support for having two containerized domain managers hosted on dif...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

CPU Socket adjustment.

client: " I’d like to have Turbo always set the number of CPU sockets to 2, and to adjust the cores per socket # to modify the # of vCPUs when RightSizing. Currently this is accomplished with a custom script. I would like this configurable on at t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Functionality already exists