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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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Remember selection time when creating short links in analytics when using presets

If you are using a relative time preset like last 1 hour e.g. and you wait for a while and then create a short link the time frame of the short link has moved by the time elapsed while you wait. This is confusing as using the short link then dlive...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to search by POD IP in dynamic focus

The use case is to identify the POD details from a Nginx downstream when it returns an error for no response from downstream service and it returns only IP of the downstream POD. However, unfortunately the current filtering with dynamic focus can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

DASH: Google Authentication using SAML than OIDC / Liberty

I had engaged Diana to discuss with L3 manager and the respond is this configuration had not been tested end to end and hence not supported until L3 or development team can get it tested to verify that the configuration is successful. This testing...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Handle http status code 0 not as error

Envoy is becoming a popular reverse proxy in the cloud native space. Although it is supported by Instana for monitoring and tracing, we found one case where traces are marked as erroneous, but should not be: Client disconnects. When a client close...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

AWS Private Link required

We have not rolled out Instana to even half of the required systems in the bank and our egres costs are escalating very quickly and we would be able to manage it with the introduction of AWS Private Link from Capitec to Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Request for adding Outgoing connection for PagerDuty with AI Manager in Data And Tool integration

In order to receive the alerts to PagerDuty, we are looking for some outgoing connection to be added to AI Manager in Data And Tool Integration which will help SREs in our team to monitor all alerts coming from AI Manager of CP4WAIOps from PagerDu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

CST. Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1 etc

Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1, support for spaces in directory/sensor names, and correction of the invocation of the ASDMAINSCRIPT in the archive file). To provide a work-around to officially support async...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

We should have the option of adding host dns alias in the resources managed by custom resource "manageservice"

Its useful because sometimes, you want to add the dns alias locally instead of adding a global alias or override an existing dns alias. This is supported by openshift but its restricted in this case because of custom resource. (Infrastructure auto...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Display deployment markers in Event views

Smart Alerts with adaptive thresholds is a nice feature to detect anomalies. Very often these anomalies are triggered by a change in the system (for example a deployment). Many graphs in Instana display the deployment markers for this reason, but ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration