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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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Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to add more than one prefix in monitor job and monitor jobstreams

We like to be able to add more than one prefix in the 'Task Name' field when creating a new job or job stream monitor.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Add Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

AIOps 4.4 - To support Configurable Parent Summary Propagation other than earliest firstOccurrenceTime

In AIOps 4.4, the Event Grouping Parent Summary propagation from Child Event is solely based on the earliest firstOccurrenceTime For Customer who want to upgrade from NOI 1.6.x to AIOps 4.4, this is a challenge. In NOI 1.6.x with CNEA and ASM, the...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Integrate with Bitbucket

We have support some pipeline integrations https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=apis-pipeline-feedback-integrations That can interact with our Releases feature in Instana https://instana.github.io/openapi/#tag/Releases H...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Mesaage bus probe support Authetication other than basic

Message bus should support other authentcation like okta other than just basic authentication . We currently have message bus probe to which external system posts alarm to it via webhook . However the message bus probe only accepts basic authetica...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Pure Storage Data Reduction Ratios not being picked up by Turbo. Using the manual Over-provisioning %. Therefore Turbo makes unnecessary Provision Disk Array Recommendations

The customer says Turbo's AI should be picking up data that is available in the PURE Storage system - and should not be requiring that the Storage Capacity Planners be adjusting the Storage Overprovisioned Percentage in the Disk Array Policy. I wi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Allow Mailman Server to continue processing other servers after a failed server

Please refer to We have 20 servers under the control of a single Mailman server , Which processes the message queue. We had a failure on 1 server , which in turn caused ALL other server messages NOT to be processed. which eventually IWS believed t...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Time data needed at the call details panel

It is not easy to know the starting time and the latency for calls, when the timeline is not shown in the analyzer, i.e., for big traces. My proposal is to show, in the call details panel, at what time the call started and which was its latency. T...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration