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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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Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8

User-friendly feature needed: GUI-based preexisting setup/config clone to create new

AS-IS: each new custom setup (incl. observer job config, policy, etc.) we have to manual enter all para one by one. Desired TO-BE: ================= Target use case (NOT limit to, but same principle cross over): #1. Define > Integration (Incl. ...
27 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

I want the SNMP Working Yes/No filter to be real-time - not based on the last successful discovery

When I set the SNMP Yes / Working No filter, I expect the result to be accurate - not based on the result of the last successful discovery. I should not have to manually check the results of the filter to see if they accurate.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
8 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

AIOps Multi-Tenancy Support is crucial for the business expansion

Currently, Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps does not support Multi-Tenancy feature. It's crucial for IBM AIOps to support Multi-Tenancy for AIOps business expansion. There are two concepts of Multi-Tenancy in AIOps at the moment.The first is for separat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To integrate IBM Workload scheduler to netcool

We have two scheduler in our organization Autosys and TWS and what we have observed is autosys is directly able to send the autosys batch logs to netcool via SNMP traps but the same is not available between TWS and netcool and due to that we had t...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

Netcool Operations Insight on OCP comes with an OpenLDAP repo which does not allow secure LDAP communication which it should

Netcool Operations Insgight on OCP comes with an OpenLDAP repo which does not allow secure LDAP communication which it should. The audit fails at my client Bundeswehr as only unsecre LDAP can be enabled and due to CASE TS017137811 is not supported...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Is a defect

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release