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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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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

How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Update ITM Situation Forwarder

hasn't been updated since 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0003 and its functionality depends on a 32-bit version of libnsl, which has been dropped in newer versions of Operating Systems, e.g. SLES 15, RHEL 8.Thus, (ITM Situation Forwarder) stops to work when OS...
3 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Support boards with many-to-many relations for vertical and horizontal lines

Customers who wants to create certain boars, however values many to many are unavailable if other lane has also many-to-many relations - for example Period and Teams - then 2 boards needs to be created
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Enhance the storage Limit of 64 kb for the alerts.status

After including analytics and runbook automation the amount of storage increase in the alerts.staus. We will change to Watson AIOps, but this is not possible the IBM internal fields use the bigest part of the hard limit of 64kB of the alerts.statu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration