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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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Historical Dashborad for incidentes and alerts is requiered

A standard task in IT Operations teams is to report and analyze incidents monthly to create improvement plans, tracking and to get statistical analysis. Is requiered to have the ability to create dashboard containing all the incidents and alerts i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Cloudability should be able to automatically archive deleted accounts

Cloudability has access to our billing account and to the API to query additional information. There should be a capability within Cloudability to automatically archive accounts that do not exist no more. Currently those accounts are grouped toget...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Need to support Oracle LDAP

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Oracle LDAP as a corporate identity provider system. Instana allows users in, however it doesn't allow to map groups with Instana groups for centralised user management. Customer has found that Instana includ...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Under review

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Planned for future release

Add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident?

Is it possible that you can add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident? I was performing an action 2 days ago on an AWS account and I clicked on ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1

Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

See VM's Group Membership

I’d like to see what Turbo groups a server belongs to when scoped to that server.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration