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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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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Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Required DSA/API for RESTConf Integration with Netcool IMPACT

Most of the RESTAPi platform in market are providing services using RESTConf and given the market progression, soon existing RESTApi will be migrated to RESTConf. (Eg: NSP a Nokia product, holds RESTAPI interface for OSS platform, but all RESTAPI ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review

HA proxy routes with SPK ingress needs to be configured - Need enhancement from product

Platform configures OpenShift Routes which is prohibited in Customer environment (RedHat recommendation). HA proxy routes with SPK ingress needs to be configured - Need enhancement from product
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Dual stack support should be available for AIOPS 4.4.1

Dual stack support should be supported for AIOPS 4.4.1
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

AIOps 4.4.1 should support Operator and Operand to be in different namespaces

Single Namespace install –The AIOPS 4.4.1 platform does not allow the Operator and Operand to exist in separate namespaces. inturn causing limitation of having Only one instance of AIOps instance in the cluster.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for Openshift Virt VM provisioning in self-service catalogue

Our customer is using MCMP to self-service deploy VMs in both VMware and Red Hat Virtualization. Now as Red Hat is moving to Openshift Virt they are asking for the functionality to self-service deploy VMs in Openshift Virt
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Planned for future release

IBM to provide observer for NetBrain

NetBrain is used by us for mapping network topologies and so it would be useful for ASM to be able to import such topology data into ASM through the use of an observer. NetBrain Automation Features (netbraintech.com)
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Instana UI - show approximation level for on sampled data

show approximation level (100%, 10%, 1%) and samping logic in-a-nutshell in Analytic View while sampling is active
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration