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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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Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
2 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Mechanism to prevent the same instance of a widget from repeatedly sending requests when there is no response to a previous request

Currently, DASH triggers multiple GET requests from widgets to the corresponding datasets, driven by an update timer. However, when a request does not receive a response, DASH lacks a mechanism to stop repeated requests from the same widget instan...
about 23 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Enable SSO account provisioning on NMS

We want new users who authenticate via SSO successfully to be able to access SevOne NMS without explicitly needing an account previously created and mapped to that same user. Currently your system only allows users with manually created accounts t...
about 18 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Restricting access to Turbo platform

Due to security requirements, the customer has requested to block any user from accessing the Turbo SaaS platform from IP addresses other than those they specify. In customer's other systems, IP whitelisting is implemented through the instance’s f...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
14 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
6 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Adding ticket IWA_DESCRIPTION, IWA_CATEGORY and IWA_TICKET parameters in the IWA dashboard

Adding ticket IWA_DESCRIPTION, IWA_CATEGORY and IWA_TICKET parameters in the IWA dashboard as we have status, workstation, priority columns. This will help the DWC users to associate the ticket number, action and category details against an action...
about 3 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Improve the usability of the search textbox

improve the usability of the search text box.1. its position is confusing (where is search box!?)2. the filter selection select box is mistaken for the search text box.3. I have to press the magnifying glass icon to search (I want to input search ...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

In the application traces(Analytics->calls in the UI) the query execution time from a DB2 is not getting represented correctly, for example when a query is waiting for a lock this time is not getting reported under query time instead it is getting reported under JVM time.

it was observed that the entire time(execution+lock) was distributed between the query execution and result fetch, so we need an implementation where we can see the query time and a child span for resultset showing the time taken in locking if any...
about 14 hours ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted