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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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Azure savings plans leverage on top of RIs during scaling actions recommendations

challenges leveraging and imposing Savings plans and RIs within the platform. Recommendations on RI skus are great but we would like to enhance the savings plans features use case to our advantage.] Essentially, the ask is to account and compute t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Planned for future release

Add dynamic value tags to alerts in non-global custom payloads

Hi, Can you please add ability to choose dynamic tag values for non-global custom payloads on alerts? Currently this is only available for global custom payload (see attached picture). Best regards,ldrascic
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

CNEA doesn't create the groups for the events that occurred during CNEA outage due to any of the following reasons - looking for Native solution

CNEA doesn't create groups for the events that occurred during CNEA outage due to any of the following reasons. i. CNEA data flow issues ii. Down time due to backup process for Cassandra database customer is expecting once their downtime is over o...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 0 Under review

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM The subject of the development request concerns the detection of loops on the current plan of IWS MDM Linux in the Forcast process and the blocking of the calculation of the curr...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Enhancements needed to ServiceNow ticketing integration

The servicenow integration for ticketing needs to be able to populate Confiugration Item (CI). This is a required field in our environment and is used to define incident queue routing. Additionally, we should write to the staging table rather than...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 1 Planned for future release