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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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Expose API Calls in RNA

Currently when testing any workflow for e.g. authentication failure, the logs are not verbose enough to show details of failure nor the details of API's calls being made. This makes it difficult to identify what is contributing to the failure.
about 2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Under review

Per workflow/folder git repository

allow for centralized control
about 2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Needs more information

Extend the support of NGINX monitoring and tracing for Red Hat Linux OS platform

Currently Red hat Linux OS does not supported for monitoring and tracing NGINX . Using NGINX on Red Hat OS is widely used in our bank .
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1 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

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
8 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1

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