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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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XML names monitoring in IBM DataPower using APM

We would like to use the DataPower agent from IBM Application Performance Management to monitor the "XML names" usage as described in here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/what-are-xmlnames-and-why-am-i-running-out-space-them-my-ibm-websphere-da...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Manage agent keys inside Instana UI

Follow on from this ticket where it was necessary to rotate the Agent Keys this feature request is for the capability to manage Agent Keys from the Instana UI in order to limit the visibility and usage of keys to specific teams or parts ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Instana on Openshift to use default ingress certificate

Hi, We install instana on openshift on my customer environment, customer wants that instana to use default ingress certificate for itself and not give tls.key and tls.crt files again on instana installation on openshift container platform.Because ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Pre-deployment policy checks to verify that provisioning requests meet the standards/rules of the organization for infrastructure

Deployments must adhere to provisioning standards and stay within security "guard rails". These standards and guard rails are spelled out by means of a collection of rules that are applied to provisioning requests to determine if the requests are ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Openshift GPU Monitoring

In instana APM tool there is no information about gpus working on redhat openshift. It will be very useful to monitor gpu metrics, info and utilization data for openshift clusters connected to instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa. Currently this type of action is blocked due to a Turbo limitation not a VMware limitation. This is needed when customers have to migr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Quick Filters - To be permanent on the Main or Parent Filter

Set Quick Filters as permanent than temporary
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager) topology view of properties change , and easy way to see what is the change.

The topology view of resources shown when a change of properties has been detected but on 3.5.1 we have to compare the JSON definition of the resource of two different periods in order to see what was the change, in some cases the changes are more...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Review (readonly) permission on roles definition WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager). The customer is looking to have a READONLY on stories,alerts,runbooks permission for some user, on WatsonAIOPS 3.5.1

We are doing a project with Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1. During role definition was not possible to define a role that allow only view( read-only) on stories, alerts, and runbooks. The most restrictive role for alerts/stories/runbooks was allo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

WebGUI 8.1 : Column add comments directly to that field without right click tool

Users requested to have “new” field (similar to Journal), so that it is possible to add comments directly to that field, without opening new window (right click tool). According to requirement it should work like in excel sheet. Additionally, user...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration