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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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Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Under review

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

Support Cron Expressions for automations scheduling

TargetProcess allows scheduling automations to run every x days, y hours, or z minutes. It would be a great improvement if we could use Cron Expressions to schedule automations. For example, if I want to run a specific automation every monday and ...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Under review

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Object Multitenancy Level - Ability to Obfuscate IP Addresses & Enhance Permission Management in SevOne NPM

Description: This idea aims to boost security and fine-tune access control in SevOne NPM and SevOne Data Insight with two key features: IP Address Obfuscation: Add the ability to mask device IP addresses in the SevOne interface, much like the curr...
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
3 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Future consideration

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review