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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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Turbonomic | Added support for Parquet format in the CUR report.

Some customers have already exported their cost reports, but instead of using gzip - text/csv, they are using Parquet, which is generally more efficient. In such cases, they have to recreate the reports, so it would be helpful if Parquet format co...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Alarm Propagation Based on Topological Relationships for Telco Use Cases

In Telco environments using IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, network infrastructure such as routers, switches, and access nodes is often modeled topologically as parent entities containing various dependent resources like physical interfaces, cards, and m...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Addition of Wi-Fi Client Device Metrics Collection

•Support Wi-Fi client devices data / session data within SevOne for Reporting (individual Wi-Fi session data for Wi-Fi client devices) •Airwave is running in single appliance. StarHub expects proposed solution to be comparable in sizing. (data arc...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to create groups of users to be used for Sharing

Right now you have to select individual people to share a dashboard, report, view with. And if a new person starts on that team, you have to know or remember exactly what things you need to share with that new person. It would be great if there wa...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Option to group variables on Dashboards - Device Group + Object Group

There are cases where we would like a Device Group (Grouped on location basis), would like to be combined (a AND condition), with a object Group (having a subset of interested objects), which can help filter to see only those critical / interested...
4 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Include a combobox on AP, Service and Endpoint panel to move to another App, Service o Endpoint easily

Why ?: because returning to the list of Apps, Services or Endpoints is annoying Whose benefit ?: All users of Instana. Should work as a simple combobox with the links.
4 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Instana and MS teams notification

Notification integration with MS teams to be two ways for example allow taking action from MSteams
4 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Dashboards need to be easy to configure and add more applets

OOB dashboard configuration is not enough to handle or present all requirements need to add more applets and can be filtered based to certain text for example
4 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted