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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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Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

EWS Probe for reading email attachments

We are using EWS probe for reading emails from outlook site, as the end user report most frequent problems with attachment of the issue over email to common mailbox. We have enabled the netcool probe to read emails from outlook, but using the E...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Azure Savings Plans Utilization Tracking

I want to be able to 1) list Azure Savings Plan commitments, followed by 2) tracking the utilization of the specific Azure Savings Plan such as 100%, 95%, etc. and 3) display the workloads that are consuming from the savings plan.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Expand Azure reservation planning to additional Azure resource types supporting Azure reserved instances

Currently Turbonomic only supports planning reservation instances for VMs in Azure. Microsoft provides numerous resource types to purchase reserved instances. I want to make purchases driven on analytics provided by Turbonomic to drive ROI, howeve...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

IWS : -noremove option of JnextPlan should not remove cancelled job streams

The goal of the -noremove option is to keep the plan "as is" (Successful job streams are not removed). However, cancelled job streams are removed during the replan operation.
9 months ago in Workload Automation 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

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