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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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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

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement of Instana with Historical Incident-Based GenAI-Powered Recommended Actions and Import Functionality

This request aims to enhance Instana by leveraging historical incident records(tickets) to enable Gen-AI-powered recommended actions.The goal is to import and analyze past incident response data to generate accurate and timely recommendations base...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Git Plugin Profile automatically

We have hundreds of BitBuckets repos in our company. For all of them we want to create Git Plugin Profile (see screenshot attached). Doing it manually for every repo would be overkill. It would be very helpful to have some way to automatically cre...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Submitted

IBM SevOne NMS upgrades should allow for limit or throttling of ssh connections

During a production upgrade for IBM SevOne NMS, a Palo Alto Networks firewall adaptive security policy automatically blocked traffic between IBM SevOne NPM peers due to excessive network traffic on TCP port 22. SevOne NPM uses Ansible to perform c...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration

Enable Dash Login page customizations

Multiple customers using the option to customize their DASH Login page with their own company logo. This option is currently not available for a full cloud installation of Netcool Operations Insight. It is only available for hybrid installations. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 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

Synthetic Data not available for dashboards

We are not able to create dashboard with synthetics data, use cases: * line graph of historical results of all synthetics in a specific location or by region for x range of days* see all failed synthetics for a pop location or for a region in a gi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration