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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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CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Support of one time import of CUR files etc. from AWS Billing Account

In large organisations, specifically in heavily regulated industries, integration from PoC or development environments to production accounts is not possible. The AWS billing account is main account and a production account. However, where turbono...
27 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Need to create an event when MQ Queue Status goes to Get Inhibited status

This is useful to the Production Support team, when the queue status goes to Get Inhibited status, the message flow cannot read the messages from the MQ queue.
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Product inconsistent behavior with undeclared variables

The RNA product behaves inconsistently when undeclared variables are used. While it might not be supported undeclared variabled (not in start block) can be leveraged with workflows except when you debug and step through a block that uses that vari...
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Enable the use of Google Maps for Topology Resource Map

The customer would like to use Google Maps rather than OpenStreetMap for the Resource Map https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.6.1?topic=elements-configuring-advanced-settings#resource_map
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Allow faceted search for items within workflows

One enhancement I would have loved to have is a faceted search for object, arrays, block names, etc... for within a single workflow (being edited) and accross workflows.
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Under review