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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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Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Pre-flight data volume measurements for all AIOps connectors

We need the ability to connect to data sources and run a pre-flight check on how much data will be generated by the connection. It is difficult to guess how much data will be generated up front without actually connecting to the data source and se...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Please version KubeTurbo helm chart in Chart.yaml when the Helm chart changes

Whenever the Helm chart changes for KubeTurbo, please also update the version number in the associated Chart.yaml file. The Helm chart for deploying KubeTurbo is here: https://github.com/turbonomic/kubeturbo/tree/master/deploy/kubeturbo We are wor...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CP4AIOps to get topology data from Meraki devices

Meraki's marketshare has exploded in serving large enterprises with cloud-managed networking in the last 5 years. Meraki now accounts for 10-20% of Cisco's switching business revenue and it is considered a leader in Gartner's 2022 Magic Quadrant f...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add agent support for Solaris Branded zones

FTAs and DAs are supported on Solaris native Global and Local zones, but are not currently supported on Solaris Branded zones.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

We are looking for the oAuth authentication at ObjectServer level. Refer the IBM Case for the same request TS016022219

As per our company standards, we need to have the oAuth authentication
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Integrate the Remedy BMC Gateway with Remedy ITSM

We have had several customers requesting the gateway integration for Remedy ITSM v20. There is only this information which does not address how the existing nco_g_bmc_remedy should be configured: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/netcool-integr...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration