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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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AIOps Incidents Alerts and other Anomalies Archival solution in a DB

It would be good to have a solution native in AIOps to connect to a DB such DB2/Oracle/MSSQL/MySQL for archiving the data for Alerts, Incidents policies etc.
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Filtering Snowflake smart alerts by database username or account

We are trying to create smart alerts to get alerts when queries are taking longer than a specific threshold. While creating the alert we are trying to filter by only specific snowflake usernames/account.
18 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Addition of SSL certificate days to expire on Synthetic Monitoring Page

We'd like to have visibility of the days to expire on the main/landing page (a column added alongside the other metrics monitored such as health, latency, status etc.) of the Synthetic Monitoring page, for a quick glimpse of the certificates that ...
19 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

IWS Installation with sedmgr -m all

Hello, We were getting troubles installing IWS 9.5 FP07 agent on a AIX OS LPAR using the sedmgr -m all settings on. The keytool and java binaries included in the IWS package install won't work if we didn't make them a sedmgr exception before they ...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
2 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Enable the "Apply Filters Dependency" for dashboard filters.

Currently, the dashboard filters do not apply filter dependencies, which forces user to type their options in the filters and sometime when the list expands beyond 150, it doesn't even appear.  Enabling this will elevate the user expereince....
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Enable VMEM and VCPU Minimum Thresholds for Cloud based VMs

When dealing with 3rd party products, support plans, and licensing, there are often constraints placed on systems for preserving a minimum specification. Same would be true for maximums when it comes to things like database licensing that is tied ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review