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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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I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Integrate dynamic agents authentication with Kerberos

Enhance the dynamic agents authentication to integrate with the Kerberos protocol. The ticket given back by Kerberos should be stored and used later by TWS jobs to authenticate to external systems.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Support for Instana Backend on OpenShift

Openshift support is on our roadmap and definitely something we want to support at Instana. Beta is planned for Q2 and GA for Q3.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 7 Delivered

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

Ratio Based Alerts for HTTP Status Codes

Hi Team, I want to place a request to have alerts based on Ratio rather than just having based on having alerts on daily and weekly seasonality. This is required as we are growing. We might see some common errors increasing in the system and avoid...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Enhancement in Netcool Impact to support OAuth 2.0

We have an increasing number of cases where we need to integrate to ServiceNow to create ticket and the new requirement is to use OAuth authentication to be able to connect to ServiceNow from Impact servers. I know that the latest version of Netco...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

New TL1 collector for FiberHome NMS

ITNM has a default TL1 collectors which are using TL1 protocol to communicate to Huawei TL1 EMS. This collectors are not equipped to communicate to the FiberHome EMS as the TL1 command formats for the new FiberHome EMS model. Please see details of...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Permission to Enable/disable Heap Dumps create Option (JVM Backchannel Options) from Instana UI

Dear IBM Instana Development Team, I am sharing some insights and suggestions from our Instana software experiences. While we greatly appreciate the software's capabilities, we have identified a potential area for improvement concerning the Heap D...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

We would like Workload Automation to keep track of last time a user logged in.

We would like to audit user access and be able to ask users that have not logged into Workload Automation after some period of time if they still need access.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Single synthetic event to be generated on non-occurrence of events related to the seasonal event

We are looking at a load shedding scenario where multiple events are generated in case of power failure. We want all of these events to be suppressed whenever they occur at a particular time. This scenario is working as expected. However, if these...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered