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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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Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
2 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
8 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
22 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

Custom endpoint levels

Today can you do custom endpoints URL using the "Configure Endpoint Extraction". It would be great if you could do custom endpoints URL with levels. For example if you do a custom endpoint for a specific URL then when you click on it in Analytics ...
8 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
24 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Bi-Directional Gateway b/w 2 instances of AIOPS for HA/DR

It would be very useful if there exist a Bi-Directional g/w between 2 instances of AIOPS to have a active-active pair.
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Support for one objectserver to serve as data source for multiple AIOPS via Connectors

If we have one netcool objectserver which is injecting alarms in one AIOPS, currently is can not send to another instance which could be helpful in maintaining Active-Active setup.
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted