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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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Feature to set the limit based on the number of failed attachments (Instana)

[How it is now] When an agent fails to execute its attachment (attachment error in occurrence of some event such as full GC), the agent continues to retry the attachment every 10 minutes repeatedly until it succeeds. [What's needed] It'd be great ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Capability to add and populate custom field on device via UI as supposed to using backend stitcher

Looking for capability to add and populate custom field or attribute to device via UI. Currently we use backend stitcher and customization to add new custom field or attribute.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) In ...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated for a single data point in the aggregate table for the month.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

ktor library support

Everyone using Kotlin platform.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

OA-PI - The possibility of graph export

It will be very useful if OA-PI have the possibility to export KPI graphics to PDF (or similar) format. Currently, it is possible only to export data to CSV format which is not very useful for the customer and doesn't feed customer's needs. There ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data. Search function does not find all CI's, because the search function searches only for components that belong to any of the following subclasses: - ComputerSystem- AppServer- S...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

XML names monitoring in IBM DataPower using APM

We would like to use the DataPower agent from IBM Application Performance Management to monitor the "XML names" usage as described in here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/what-are-xmlnames-and-why-am-i-running-out-space-them-my-ibm-websphere-da...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration