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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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Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Related Events: Do not suggest new groups covered by a deployed pattern

When new groups are discovered that match an existing pattern, they are not assigned to the existing pattern. This forces the users to move the pattern to new and then to deploy it again, so that new groups are assigned to the exsting pattern. The...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

CCSDWAN Dedicated Cluster: Philips : NMS 6.7.1: Flow reporting issue : Interface index visible instead of Interface name in FIM

In Flow interface manager, we are not seeing interfaces name for the sub interfaces, but it shows with ifindex id which is difficult for us to recognize and not acceptable in the flow reporting. Flow data receiving through sub-interfaces, however ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Add top level cloud provider filter to the Action Center Global Environment UI

Currently when starting at the Action Center Global Environment, you have to click on Scale/Volume or Resize/App Component, etc and then select which cloud provider you are interested in. This must be replicated for each level down in the Actions ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Document the recommended number of events and smart alerts the SaaS by default can support

The information would be useful when development of a solution in which is a replacement of an existing APM. The primary benefit would be to not pick a path only to find out after a large time investment that that option is not able to support the...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Under review

CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration