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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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Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

We have requirement to monitor the alerts for AS400 message queue based below scenarios: 1. If the message type is (DIAGNOSTIC/INQUIRY/INFORMATIONAL, etc.) and the severity is (>=, <=, or =).2. If the message type is (DIAGNOSTIC/INQUIRY/INFO...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Improve the way Azure Disk recommendations are displayed in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing

When looking at Azure Disk recommendations in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing, the THROUGHPUT (MB/S) chart of the Recommendations page is confusing, as the units are actually in Mbps. Please remove the capitalisation so the units are unambiguo...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Needs more information

nco_p_message_bus : Support for new line characters which is removed in version 22

HI IBM team, We would like to request an enhancement or you can called feature reintroduce for the IBM Message Bus Probe. In version 22, support for the new line characters was removed, which was impacted our multiple notification system where mes...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Improved functionality -Scheduling maintenance windows

The maintenance windows, but what happens when the window is active, is that the notifications are not sent through the alert channels that we have implemented, e.g.: no notification is sent through Teams or events to Service Now, however the even...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review

Provide Functionality to trigger an Anomaly based on a larger time sample. i.e Month over Month, vs Day over Dat

This helpful as they had a service that was idle for two months and it inadvertently started being used. It took a few days for it to be detected as anomalous behavior. Using a Month over Month time frame, might have triggered an alert earlier.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
3 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Needs more information