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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Filter Kubernetes namespaces

In some cases, customers want to install IBM Instana host agent on K8s workers nodes from K8s cluster managed by third party and used by several clients (shared resources). If worker nodes are dedicated for a customer, it could be great to be able...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Provide sample gitops process for Instana synthetics

Instana Synthetics is nodejs code so teams/users should keep it in a github repo for version control, security, compliance, tracking issues for changes etc The gap is automating deploying that code into an Instana account. By providing a sample gi...
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard

Can you add the definition of the different levels of thresholds to the widgets. In example , three levels (green, yellow and red) which will change the color relative of the passing thresholds. Chart Time Series, Big Number.
9 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Ability to see the full device group path in DI Alerts Detail widget for 'Device Group Name'

Customer is comparing the NMS UI v/s DI in this case. In NMS using the 'Alerts' attachment, when showing alert details grouped by Device Group, the device group name is shown with a full tree path, for example: All Device Groups/IP/Class A All Dev...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Customer wants the ability to change the DI login logo to a custom logo which is possible in the NMS but not in DI.

Customer requested it and it makes sense given that it already works in the NMS.
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Alert when sensitive data has been collected

Because IBM has a large number of customers in the Financial and Healthcare industries it is important to have the ability to alert when potentially sensitive data has been captured. For example: social security numbers, dates of birth, passwords,...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

To alert on CVEs, introduce a new event type in Instana for "Vulnerabilities Detected"

Instana should provide capabilites to create an event based on a vulnerability detected for the particular host/technology, so that the customer's support teams are alerted for the detected vulnerabilities. The event could be either a System Event...
10 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities similar to the legacy HTTP Transport. # retryLimit - The number of time for http client to retry connection if previously failed. # retryLimit = 2 # # retryWait - The amount of time...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to see trough API the history of removed peers & HSA

Request is ability to see the information through API of HSA and Peers that were removed successfully previously. And in case of re-adding a repaved host, erase that information.
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release