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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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Messagebus probe should verify OAUTH token when acting as provider

When acting as provider for a webhook, the provided OAUTH token (via keycloak) is not verified. To enhance security the token (Authorization Bearer) should be verified against the resource server (i.e. keycloak). Example: We are using the messageb...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Netcool probe can connect any other component in service assurance platform

Currently Netcool probe is designed to read only static data as lookup file and can insert data in Objectserver. No other DB or updating alarms is possible. If Netcool probe can handle any other database other than objectserver also can connect an...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Native Connect to Cloud Pak 4 Data

ANZ has installed both Turbonomics and Cloud Pak for Data for different purposes Turbonomic's takes a number of data feeds from multiple IT Systems (e.g. vCentre, HyperV, HP Open View, Storage, OpenShift, Splunk and ServiceNow etc) providing analy...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
10 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Need to see NUMA Scoring from HMC per Lpar in Instana

Hi for HANA on Power it is essentiall to see the NUMA Scoring for each VM from HMC in Instana
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Event Manager - Have the ability to update 'Senders' name in communications

Hi, As per support ticket TS003773566, we are experiencing a low response rate from potential candidates after they receive the communication (an email) from Event manager inviting them for an interview. The sender's name is 'SystemIntegration'. T...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration