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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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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

Message Bus Probe basic auth user expanded

The basic authentication user account only allows for a single username and password. This might work well in a very small company, but gets more challenging in a larger organization. What would make this more useful is to allow the basic auth use...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

Offering a "community edition" with certain limitations.

To sell the product as a Product Lead, it is necessary to adopt an SMB business approach of getting more users to try it first. In this case, as with many other SMB products, a license that is available for free use in the customer's environment i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

we need feature to select alerts and export them to excel file

When we have several alerts on the same device or location we generate a report/excel file with all the related alerts and attach it to the Remedy Incident. Right now we have to do it manually. So we need feature to select alerts and export them t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Export Alerts and Incidents through one or more kafka channel/topic(s)

To continuously be able to export alerts and incidents to external systems, an export mechanism based on kafka is suggested.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

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

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

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML emails

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML email format in the Body. Current email probe is capable of reading only plain text. Many users are looking for converting html email into an alert. It requires lot of efforts to write rules for reading HTML em...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration