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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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metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Ability for RBAC to enable Objects on Team Scope

Use-case: To allow more flexible rules for allowing people access to specific entities it would be great to instead of selecting the entities (app perspectives, namespace, etc.) one by one, to allow a query builder approach in which we can use log...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

New Agent Key in case of leak or security concerns

As customer I want to ensure that when the Agent Key leaks, nobody can abuse the Key and do harmful things with it. To be able to manage (add, manage, delete) the Keys (Sub-Keys) inside the Instana UI would help to monitor and govern who has acces...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Add Missing Chart Types in Dashboard View

For the New Relic Migration, we need to be able to have the same Dashboards with Instana as we had with New Relic.We noticed that some Chart Types are missing.And sorted them by our usage:1. Table,2. Bullet,3. Histogram (dyn. Bucket def.),4. Funne...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Instana Health / Issue State queryable via API or Grafana Metrics

Introduction:-------------We have several Teams, which use internal Dashboard-Tools, which query multiple data sources (new-relic, check_mk, Prometheus, Splunk, etc., Openshift).These Tools make use of Health checks and Meta Informations.While mig...
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Add Formulas and Operators for Calculation into Query Editor ( Dashboard and Alerting)

Use Case:----------- Create new metrics on the fly via calculation (e.g percentage / relative metrics from count numbers)- Sum up values on custom metrics / Business calculations. Desired Solution:------------------- Add Calculation options into t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Integration with Splunk and Signal FX

Many clients and Accenture Internal Teams are using Splunk for AIOps. Hence there have been multiple requests for Turbonomic SPlunk Integration
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Remote monitoring of MSSQL

It would be useful to have the ability to remotely monitoring SQL only.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

View Only for Plans in New Status

As a TBMA I would like the ability to be able to provide select users with a role that would allow them View Only access to plans that are in New Status.    I will know this is complete when a Cost Center Owner or person in a specially d...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Unified UI for DASH(Cloud) and ITNM(On-premise)

For Telus customer, we are deploying the NOI on cloud(Redhat Openshift) and ITNM on on-premise VM. Customer is looking for a single place to access all the GUI components (WebGUI, Impact, ITNM) . It is very easy to access the GUI in single place t...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists