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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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Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
6 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 1 Submitted

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted

Provide the Password and/or the Client Credentials Grant Types for the ServiceNow Connectors

The current OAuth 2.0 implementation for the ServiceNow Connectors in Datalink use the authorization grant type which requires an interactive login when the refresh token expires. This means that a user has to physically login when the refresh tok...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Data Privacy: Implement a solution to filter PI data from imported tags

Customers, especially in EMEA have data privacy concern if PI data is processed by a SaaS solution. PI data maybe contained in tags Turbonomic imports from Hypervisors or cloud providers. Please implement an option when adding targets that allow i...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Add Support for additional hypervisor Proxmox Virtual Environment

All VMware customer are currently evaluation options to mitigate the effect of the price hikes for the VMware products after VMware was acquired by Broadcom. One option usually evaluated is migration to another virtualization platform/hypervisor. ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Define a group based on a tag

Customer wants to be able to create a scope/group based off a particular tag, and then assign a user to that group. To have RBAC based on tags.
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information