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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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Allow for Python/SQL data manipulation

Customer would like to be able to use python or SQL to manipulate the data to create table joins and data transformation.  They are familiar with using those methods a
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

User-friendly feature needed: GUI-based preexisting setup/config clone to create new

AS-IS: each new custom setup (incl. observer job config, policy, etc.) we have to manual enter all para one by one. Desired TO-BE: ================= Target use case (NOT limit to, but same principle cross over): #1. Define > Integration (Incl. ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Allow greater control over "externalTaskTimeoutMin" API setting by action type

Every different action type has dramatically different timeout expectations. For example, a compute vmotion should have a relatively lower timeout (<45 min), whereas a storage vmotion should account for a longer timeout, with some taking severa...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Integration > Dynatrace(DT) > events load: to-include associated ticket (DT# P-)info

AS-IS: ====== Integration > dynatrace > event load > post-load event: incident & alerts page > no dynatrace P- info found, P- is dynatrace side ticket# info. Note: current cloudpak seems to grab the events from {dynatrace-SAAS-...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support oAuth for integration with 3rd party platforms

Unlike Basic Auth, OAuth doesn't provide the weakness in sharing password data. oAuth uses authorisation tokens to verify an identity. Many vendors that provide platform access, provide an optional or mandatory mechanism of API access. Versa for e...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Future consideration

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

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...
9 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Future consideration

Story(Incident) in UI should be able to suggest recommendation based on selected Alerts by Generative AI(WatsonX)

The Key use case of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, “AI Manager” is Proactive Incident Detect & Diagnose by leveraging AI(ML) technology. Story(Incident) in UI at current version, 3.7.x of AI Manager suggests top 3 Alerts which are related to ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration