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Allow customization of alert colors in Data Insight

Currently, alert severity colors in SevOne Data Insight (Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, etc.) are fixed and cannot be customized. The existing Custom Themes feature only supports changing the Brand Color (a single global accent) and selecting a ...
1 day ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

Since October 2025, the FIS(Fidelity Information Services) customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components....
1 day ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Enhance Service Name (or other dimensions) with AI Model Names from Product Name

Currently, services such as AWS Bedrock (particularly when purchased in AWS Marketplace in this user's scenario) pass through the name of the AI model being used in the Product Name dimension. However, Product Name is not available in TrueCost Exp...
1 day ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 0 Submitted

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Submitted

Cloudability Optimization Dashboard releases COIN Explorer (Public Preview): computing COIN Score with a CONFIDENCE SCORE

Confidence Score is critical because a COIN score alone can be misleading if the underlying data is incomplete or noisy. The Confidence Score shows how much users can trust the COIN result by reflecting factors such as spend coverage and whether d...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Centralized Process Management for Core Domain Start/Stop in Horizontally Scaled Environment

In our current environment, we are having to manage approximately 30 domains configured across 20 physical servers with High Availability. This architecture necessitates the manual start and stop of up to 60 domains during scheduled maintenance ac...
2 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Frontdoor Permission for Private, Non-Shareable Views

Request is for a new permission configuration within Frontdoor access model that allows users to create and manage their own private views but restricts them from sharing those views with others. Ability to create, edit, and delete personal views ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Enable Custom Certificate Duration and Support External Certificate Issuers for All Components in Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x

During Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x installation, the certificate creation step fails because the application default certificate duration does not align with the bank’s certificate manager requirements. Specifically, the default duration conflicts wit...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add Identifier/Flag for Events Suppressed During Maintenance Windows to Support Downstream Integrations

When an Instana environment is in a maintenance window, events are intentionally suppressed and not forwarded to downstream systems such as ServiceNow (SNOW). However, Instana currently provides no mechanism to identify or retrieve which events we...
1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor shared drive on Windows Server (SMB)

Request for Instana to add the ability to be able to monitor Windows shared drives (using SMB) in the same fashion that Linux NFS mount points are currently monitored. I am currently using Windows 2016 and Windows 2022 Standard Edition.
1 day ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted