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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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Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Support for VMware vCenter V8 discovery

Support for the discovery of the VMware vCenter V8 is needed.
8 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Optimize logs trace on IWS to keep track of actions by LDAP user

Actually the IWS if we make a connection to authenticate users by ldap, (MS Active Directory) on norma audit logs files (database / plan) all actions like create, delete, update any scheduling object, are keeping with twsusr owner and not the pers...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

PUT-API for Tags

Right now you can create Tags with the Post API. But it fails if there is already an existing Tag. But there is no PUT API to change a tag and update tags. The only way is to delete all tags and create them again. It would be very useful if there ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

ASM Topology Dashboard Favorites Inner Status Coloring

When I create a topology dashboard template and set it as favorite, a nice bubble icon with status colors appear for topology drill down. The pie chart around the icon is actually showing status severity of all topology related objects. Which basi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review