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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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add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Eventviewer tool - access criteria "FilterName"

At the moment you can only control the access criteria of event viewer / event list tools by membership of user groups and the class of events (or fields value with a conversion in alerts.conversions and limited to = and != comparison operators). ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

param.FilterSQL / param.FilterName as available runtime parameter for SQL tools

In order to limit the action of a tool to the event shown in an event list / event viewer it would be great to have the filter name or even better the filter SQL as runtime parameter available for SQL tools ( and it would be nice to have it availa...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Alert setup for node not getting attached to kubernetes cluster

When a node is not able to attach itself to a Kubernetes cluster Instana should trigger alert. Suppose ASG has spun up 5 nodes but only 2 nodes get attached to the cluster. In Instana we want to setup alert that can inform us that 3 nodes are not ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

Exact Topology Template must allow deselecting neighbourong nodes

In the exact topology templates while choosing the neighbouring nodes it is vital to allow updating the neighbouring vertex by removing some the already choosen vertex as neighbours. At the moment, topology vertex can only be added and once they a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Find Topology resources following the arrow direction and render them on page

In topology view, client want to see an ability to view resource with all "child resources" following specific direction arrows. e.g. down arrow (has) and not up arrow (runsOn). Currently AIOps Topology has "Get Neighbours" option which shows all ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add Ability to Run Datagather for FTA/DA/MDM from TDWC and sftp to TDWC tmp directory

An enhancement that allows an admin to run a datagatherer from the TDWC for any FTA/DA/MDM and have the file placed on the TDWC server would reduce time to get datagatherer to IBM support. Most large Environments seperate duties and IWS admins do ...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

All Search option

Hi, is there a possiblity to get an "all search" option in turbonomic or the ability to change the default "search vm" to a different kind like default "search groups". As we in the Atruvia using mostly groups it would be pretty good to start the ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Hide imported groups

Hi, as we are having so many groups in turbonomic it would be very helpful to hide all imported groups from our targets like vcenter or vmm. We dont need these groups and it only disturbes us while we are searching for something. It would be very ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration