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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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Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Needs more information

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Both the v2 and v3 API's require customer facing documentation that covers the rate limits for the various endpoints contained where in.

Information such a rate limits for updates to API is a critical oversight in the SevOne published documentation. Customer uses api for a significant portion of SevOne functionality for large updates e.g. device adds, interface description updates ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Is a defect

keep infrastructure metric history on activation of beeInstana

Please refere to TS015999019 Missing his torical Data after migration to beeinstana
3 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

Place event id in alert header

Currently there is no id in email alert header. Please make e.g. event id part of email alert header to support automated and human processing
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted