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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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CNEA Grouping Guardrails

Customer needs ability to create "guard rails" by adding custom data from the event into the list of fields considered by analytics.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

BoIT locking invoices

Hi Team, We are looking for a solution to add the BoIT invoice-locking idea to the community. This means that there is a feature to lock the Bill of It in synch with the BoIT invoices issued for the same period. Currently, we are unable to do so. ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Future consideration

Specify request & limits of pod Leader Elector

In https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/blob/main/instana-agent/values.yaml the Instana agent has defined cpu & memory requests and limits, see line 89.However, for the leader elector there are none. As a consequence the leader elector takes...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 7 Functionality already exists

Allow event handler to specify Variable Table to start job/stream

An event handler action which starts a job and/or stream should be able to specify a variable table to be used. In addition, it should be possible to run an executable with parameters to determine the variable table name. An absolute name could be...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Characters that Netcool cannot use

OS:AIX 7.1 TL5SP4SW:Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4 I am using nco_postmsg to send a message to ObjectServer.A part of the message was missing because there were metacharacters and quotation marks in the sent message.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

IWA - Dynamic Agent job persistance on "no resource found" error

Add the ability to define jobs that run on a dynamic agent to not error if there is no resource found to run the job. Currently, if all agents defined for the job are down, the job results in an error and must be manually rerun. Add the ability fo...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ktor library support

Everyone using Kotlin platform.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Bearer authentication for IWS

On the Manage Data sources, there is anew feature where allow multiple REST API to be consumed. Although only offers basic authentication.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Hide authorization token in alert channel header value

Please provide an option to hide the value field when there is a token inside for security reasons. You will find this in the alert channel header area. Details please find in the attached screenshot.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0