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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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Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
5 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0

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...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Future consideration

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

ALSAC would like to be able to monitor the SalesForce Cloud

We need to proactively monitor the SaleForce Cloud which is used extensively in ALSAC. We would like to be able to observe data such as (but not limited to): Logins and ip addresses related to them Data loads and deletions - unusual activity API A...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Enable the use of Google Maps for Topology Resource Map

The customer would like to use Google Maps rather than OpenStreetMap for the Resource Map https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.6.1?topic=elements-configuring-advanced-settings#resource_map
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Enable Cost Object Permissions from ADM

Currently Cost Object Permissions can only be manually loaded into ITP and adjusted from there.  Creating Cost Object Permissions from Master Data in CT and manually adding changes works, until Master Data changes and is updated as this  ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Making the Default time period Dynamic in TBM Studio

The Default Time period to be changed to a dynamic setting of (t-1) in the Time Settings option. Example- If the current month is April, the Default time period should be March and so on.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

API-C physical appliance monitoring

currently this is the module we dont support either remote or local monitoring is needed for this part.
2 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Under review

Turbonomic support for UCS X Manager Target.

We will like to get support for adding our plataform UCS X Manager, that will provide visibility and more details to the actions that Turbonomic identinfied.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration