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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?
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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NCM Driver Support for Nokia 7250 IXR-e

Currently there is no driver available for Nokia 7250 IXR series https://www.al-enterprise.com/-/media/assets/internet/documents/ale-hybridpol-nokia-7250-ixr-e-interconnect-routers-datasheet-en.pdf . Would like to have a driver available for this ...
20 days ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Under review

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
6 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Export data from Custom Dashboards

We are using Custom Dashboards to track and improve our metrics, thanks to custom metrics. But because of 7 days retention, it is not possible to track with historical data. The only way we can manage to find is to semi automate the process with t...
6 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

IBM JVM Profiler Support

Currently IBM JVM Profiler is not supported https://www.instana.com/supported-technologies/java-profiling/ and it makes application servers hosted on AIX websphere impossible to profile and this is needed feature to optimize java applications
6 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Functionality already exists

Netcool Impact - Policy activator to have a scheduled time window, such that policy always runs at a scheduled time.

example: case: 1 I want to activate my policy using policy activator at 8PM IST every day , but if any issues noi-nciserver-0 pod get restarted at 6PM IST and it got up at 6:05PM IST, then policy activator will activate my policy at 6:05PM IST rig...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Submitted

Build a dedicated topology observer for Solarwinds

Some customers of us (like ENI, ENEL, ...) have Solarwinds as network management tool and it would fine having the related observer to import the topology from it into the WAIOps platform they have installed like we do for other similar tools from...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Under review

Add target support to IBM PowerVM

I received from Turbonomic & SevONE Sales Director, Technology Business Unit Data,AI&Automation Div. IBM Japan, Ltd. that IBM does not support IBM AIX and Oracle VM on Turbonomic. My client TOHOKU EPC's subisidiary TOiNX requested us to su...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1

Restricted read-only permissions for non-technical users of custom dashboards

As an Instana admin configuring access to non-technical users who use Instana only to view custom dashboards, I want to ensure that such users can only view specific custom dashboards and not be able to: Create new custom dashboards Duplicate exis...
12 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review