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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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Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

Provide associated risk for Reconfigure to add licensed host actions

As a user I would like the ability to observe the reason that Turbonomic is recommending to add/reconfigure a new licensed host, so that I can better understand the impact/outcomes of reconfiguring to add a new licensed host.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

MFT file transfers should report successful or failed

When a MFT file transfer has completed, the Instana dashboards does not report whether it was successful or failed; it is only reported 'Completed' by the coordination queue manager and the file transfer dashboards. However, when an event fires fo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Add 'Job Name' to MFT metrics

File transfers are tracked using their 'Transfer ID' in Instana, but this transfer ID is a random string. Our customer creates file transfers with a specific job name, and he needs the transfers to be identified in Instana using their job name. So...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Allow users to choose a group name when saving a scope

A user without site admin privileges cannot create groups explicitly but is able to save a scope resulting in an implicit group creation. Unfortunately the group is named automatically with a cryptic name. Please add a feature to name the resultin...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations for ELK or others. Use-case, one can have different dashboards for different purposes, currently you can only setup one.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI from log management tools alike we now have the ability to access the logs based on infra entities.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Functionality already exists

ASM observer for IBM Public Cloud

Caixa customer with huge investment in IBM Public Cloud, is interested in CP4WAIOps (nowadays we are running a PoC). We need an observer for IBM Public Cloud. The actual one is related to Cloud Foundry which was deprecated a while ago from IBM Pu...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Not under consideration

Probe for Message Bus - Add EMS failover option

The message bus probe does not support an EMS failover option presently. The probe should allow the possibility to configure a second EMS endpoint by introducing SecondaryHost and SecondaryPort properties. In our setup, the customer's EMS cluster ...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Orchestration 2 Not under consideration