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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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Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Resource Filtering for Mediation Packs in Predictive Insights

It's currently only possible to filter on Metrics being pushed into Spark/Cassandra, being able to further filter and exclude resources deemed unimportant will help refine and focus Metrics being consumed by the Analytics engine and therefore gene...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Add "Google Workspace" as collaboration tools for Chatops other than SLACK/MS-TEAMS

This has been a request from customer BPER, that has already bought the solution but doesn't have the possibility to implement Chatops, 'cause they have Google Workspace as collaboration tool.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Adding default component statuses logging to default logging level

In cases TS004816821 and TS004896360 the customer faced problems with setting an optimal debug level to monitor the status of components. In case TS004816821 the customer had a fatal error when LDR did not send any data for approximately 4 days. I...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Automated/semi-automated remediations to address Security and Compliance violations for VMs/Servers

Empower self-healing remediation with low and zero touch for cost avoidance. As a Cloud Admin , I want to be informed about any Security & Compliance deviation in my Client´s environments so I can take the necessary actions to avoid audit issu...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

API request url needs updating

In meeting with a customer recently to troubleshoot API issues he said he was having, we noticed something in Swagger that was failing. We realized that in the request URL, it had an old url string that needs to be updated. It lists /vmturbo/ wher...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Not under consideration

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name. I
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Synthetics Tests granularity below 1 minute

As a customer, I want to ensure that my endpoints are available using Synthetics. Also, as a customer, I would like to have several measurements per minute to exclude temporary connectivity problems. A workaround would be to set up multiple tests ...
12 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Instana to support GPU monitoring on Openshift Container Platform

Hi, My customer ISBANK needs Instana to support GPU machines on openshift.Instana supports GPU monitoring for just standalone docker servers with GPUs. According to the result of a related case, we learned that there is no support for GPU monitori...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration