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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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Expansion of Portfolio to Korea Hosting(MS Azure-Seoul)

As per the link on the page below, KT has signed a strategic partnership with MS. https://news.microsoft.com/2024/09/28/kt-corporation-and-microsoft-take-giant-step-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea/ KT Cloud, a subsidiary of KT, has a plan to ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Only display full day of information in charts

Often the most recent day has a tendency to look like a reduction when you do not have the full days' worth of data in the tool. The ability to remove the last day or set charts to -1 day would help reduce confusion with end users
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
6 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Improve Right Sizing ROI policy to filter out different types (e.g. ignore EBS gp2/sc1 recommendations)

Currently seeing lot's of recommendations to change EBS to GP2. AWS is strongly recommending moving GP2 to GP3 so it's bizarre to recommend the reverse. Want to alter the policy to ignore such options, or only show GP3.
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Request for Policy limit Increase and Consolidation Option

We are unable to create a new policy for rightsizing because we have reached the policy limit target (30 policies). we have multiple Line of Business (LOBs), and each LOB requires three policies-one for each service: Compute, Disk, and SQL. We kin...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Add TopN Capacity widget using percentiles for Percentage-based metrics (interface utilization %, cpu %, etc.)

Capacity planners would like to review large numbers of interfaces, devices, etc. and base their capacity recommendations on the percentage of time devices are in various performance zones (e.g. in past week, these interfaces were above 90% utiliz...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration