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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 monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Future consideration

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Properly version tables and reports etc

There is no way to find the configuration of previous versions of tables / reports (and other items that have configuration that can be changed) Also I cannot find what has changed between different check-ins. I could not revert to a previous chec...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Enable the use of Google Maps for Topology Resource Map

The customer would like to use Google Maps rather than OpenStreetMap for the Resource Map https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.6.1?topic=elements-configuring-advanced-settings#resource_map
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

Calc Explorer: Detail Export

As a TBM Admin, I’d like to be able to export the Calc Explorer reports underlying data so that I can create custom /granular level detailed views to prioritize & manage the list of model performance enhancements.  I’ll know it’s com...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

with RBAC enabled, ASM timeline turns resources blank when moving the slider to a time in the past

RBAC doesn't show any historical data, so this feature is unavailable with RBAC enabled
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Is a defect

Cloudability should have unified approach to resolving tag conflicts for all cloud service providers

Currently Cloudability is treating empty tag values in Azure differently than in GCP as my organization is using multi cloud architecture, we would want to be able to apply same logic and expect same results for all the cloud providers that we use.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted