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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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Configure custom dashboards with co-editors but without read-access for everyone

Currently for any custom dashboard I can configure whether it should be "private" or "public" (see attached screenshot). If I want to define co-editors, I only can use the "public" option, with that I also must make the dashboard visible for every...
4 days ago in Instana / Access Control 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Capture the past actions and use them to create a persistence or volatility index. Some customers are more likely to implement persistent actions.

The Turbonomic ideal is that Customers trust our actions – and automate so that those Cloud VM scale actions happen automatically – perhaps every night. This is NOT what happens in the real world. Customers or App Teams have problems either trusti...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

A status page for Turbonomic SaaS

Why is it useful? A dedicated SaaS status page for Turbonomic provides transparency to customers by delivering real-time updates on system performance, service availability, and ongoing incidents. This fosters trust and enhances the customer exper...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Collapsible bottom panel on Incident > Affected Resources tab

In an Incident, the Affected Resources tab has a bottom panel which is not collapsible and leaves very little room to examine the topology graph.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Configure custom management port for Rabbit MQ sensor

During a POC with a customer to observe Cloud pak for Data, found that the Rabbit MQ sensor doesn't allow anything other than default of 15672 as management port. Should allow custom port so that the products which use custom port can show more value
5 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Automated Download for Job Log Details of SAP Jobs

Our client has a critical need to integrate Job Log Details of SAP jobs managed by IBM Workload Scheduler into control and audit systems. To fulfill this requirement, it is essential to implement an automated download feature, enabling the logs to...
5 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Increase the granularity of DynamoDB metrics to support hourly basis analysis

The idea is to have the metrics for a few products persistent on an hourly basis so the users can do a deeper analysis of their usage. Today, the customer is using a tool from AWS Marketplace called CUDOS to do that. https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blog...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted