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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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Prevent duplicate email notifications

Targetprocess configuration of notifications has many options but they tend to just result in duplicate emails being sent for the same event.  Two things would help with this:  1) Make sure a given event only sends one notification to a...
11 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 0 Future consideration

Documentation around Openshift Operator management

Current Documentation does not cover managment of Subscriptions Install Plans Managing upgrades via Subscriptions and Managing the Operator deployment eg offline repo extra config eg CPU limits or custom build of operator to support hardend build.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.

Report showing last time discovered or stored per sensor.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

We would like event rules to trigger off of object changes in the database and in the plan

We would like to allow application teams to perform updates in our production environment and we would like to have an event rule trigger when objects are updated in the database and/or in the plan and then send the following information either th...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Not under consideration

MQ Series Monitoring Agent: Include the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers) support in ITCAM for Messaging agents.

The Monitoring team has been received a demand from MQ team about their new environment in the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers). Usually the new environment is composed of 3 servers, with one service active and the others in stand-by. But, ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Setup a NOI / AIOps application self monitoring solution that can be integrate with RBA to try to solve the issue

Why is it useful? It is useful because there are not specific monitoring solution for that environment. It needs to setup many custom solutions that could be changed with the new version of tool. Who would benefit from it ? All customers that have...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration