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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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All tables should be able to be sorted, filtered, shared and exportable to csv

Since there is not a way to inject custom fields/values such as a note that a specific agent, event, smart alert is a work in progress, or associated to a specific project task or incident response, we have to be able to create order listing of th...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Support for Over 1000 Grouping Rules Under IBM's Scope-Based Grouping Mechanism with Telus Customization

The 1,000 grouping rules have been established by the business team based on their expertise and understanding of events within their technical domain. These rules help identify real problems, reduce noise from events, and prevent the creation of ...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for OAuth for topology observers like Dynatrace

Since customer security doesn't allow basic authentication or direct API token bases authentications, customer is updating Dynatrace API authentication to support OAuth using centralized FedSSO token provider. this toke in expires every hour. Curr...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Would like to have VMWare vCPU Shares (low, normal, high) as an attributes for filtering

To filtered down to VMs that has a certain vCPU shares settings. e.g. If all SQL VM should have "High" shares, we can quickly find if there is any SQL VM that has been misconfigured to have "low" or "normal" shares.

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Chatops should support Webex Messaging (also known as Webex Teams). Currently only Slack and MS-Teams are supported.

WE currently use Webex Messaging as our enterprise collaboration tool. AIOps currently only supports chatops integration from the incident view (and change risk notification) via Slack and MS-Teams, tools we do not currenlty use.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Planning row deletion

We use planning to store a lot of rows/transactions. Over time we accumulate a lot data and some rows aren't needed anymore. I think it would help with performance if we could delete the rows we don't need anymore. Usually, that requires exporting...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Enable Cost Object Permissions from ADM

Currently Cost Object Permissions can only be manually loaded into ITP and adjusted from there.  Creating Cost Object Permissions from Master Data in CT and manually adding changes works, until Master Data changes and is updated as this  ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review