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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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Outbound Splunk Logging Connection

We use Splunk for a historic view of all of our incidents/ events. CloudPak/ Netcool expected behavior is for events to clear, so we use Splunk to get the historical view for analysis purposes. We would like an in-built integration to use to outpu...
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Under review

seperate UserRoles for GUI Login and CLI/SSO

In JazzSM the smadmin Roles are used for GUI Login, using cli Commands the SSO Integration(like ASM). For security reasons, it will be usefull to seperate users - which can login to GUI - which can use cli commands - which can be used to SSO-Integ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Adding the capacity to install new plugins/drivers for NAPALM

Currently the NAPALM module only supports what is the default for few vendors (Cisco mainly). But there are more networking brands and models requiring RIA integration as well. Example: Fortinet. It is not supported out of the box, but there are p...
9 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Mechanism to prevent the same instance of a widget from repeatedly sending requests when there is no response to a previous request

Currently, DASH triggers multiple GET requests from widgets to the corresponding datasets, driven by an update timer. However, when a request does not receive a response, DASH lacks a mechanism to stop repeated requests from the same widget instan...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Topology REST API for the Service Now

We need to expose the Topology REST API for the Service Now team to consume. However, the authentication of the API is limited to HTTP Basic, and current the only available username/password pair is from a K8s secret. As confirm by this support ti...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

More dimensions on reporting on Azure Log Analytics

This feature request is regarding Azure Log Analytics. Cloudability should provide visibility into how many GBs of logs are ingested per application or log source, and to categorize log types (e.g., dependencies, performance, AzureMetrics, etc.) i...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Enable User Impersonation Feature in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently offer a way for administrators to impersonate or assume the view of another user. This limits the ability to effectively troubleshoot user-specific issues or validate permission-based configurat...
17 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Enhance Instana Standard Edition to make airgapped package more available

Affected: All airgapped customers, like goverent sector, military and public sector who usually run Instana in Airgapped environment would intereted to use Instana Standard Edition and prefer the airgapped can be easily available more easily Descr...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review