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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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Improve Api v3 Documentation for SDBConfigs endpoints

API v3 has a section for SDBConfigs - Many of the endpoints have very little or no description on what the intended functionality is. Improved documentation for the endpoints is requested
4 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Integration with Datadog for Metrics

Currently the platform has OOB integration with Datadog for alarms and events. However, Datadog also sends Metrics for example from Okta for denied logins, etc. which cannot be captured for correlation for generating an anomaly.
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Build Synthetic Images with arm compability

Have it possible to run backend on arm instances
4 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Apptio BI - Limit number of "legend items" on charts to aid visibility

Apptio BI stacked bar charts require the ability to limit the number of items to include in the widget (example, "limit results to: "). For our cloud reporting, we want to use a widget to showcase a stacked chart of Cloud services used. For our en...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
23 days ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ 0 Submitted

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Provide public API to update Rightsizing ROI tickets or add comments

One of my customer in inquiring if we can enable or consider enabling write access for cloudability API V3. When it comes to rightsizing ROI data, the cloudability API V3 is read only, which is preventing them from adding comments or updating entt...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
about 2 months ago in Instana 0 Submitted

Enable system logs towards syslog destination option

Currently RIA has an option located at Settings> System Configuration >Syslog destination but is not used for generating compliance and authentication logs towards a SIEM (Security Information Event Management) Can this feature include user ...
5 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

Mobile Layer DNS break requires just like Web layer request DNs Capture

As we have the mobile app and webapp we wanted to traces the DNS for web and mobile breakups for the mobile app and web app,
5 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted