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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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Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
3 months ago in Instana 1 Under review

Incident Policy Condition set to include relative time Comparision to add delay/wait time for triggering policy

Introduce a condition in the Incident Policy that allows for relative time comparison, enabling the addition of delay or wait time before triggering actions or incidents. This helps better control of the incident creation and avoids false positives.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
6 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Under review

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Recursive Maintenance Entry Every During Off Business Hours

We have a requirement to add maintenance entry using IBM Netcool Impact Maintenance Window Management. We have recursive option, but it is not fulfilling our requirement in single entry. If we need to add the maintenance for the entire week from 9...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Multiple SSH Integrations

Allowing multiple ssh integrations in AIOps will allows an administratior creating the runbooks to select different jump hosts/ssh hosts to run the SSH Scripts. This will be quite helpful in scenarios where the client network is segregated into di...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Option to run Actions in Parallel inside the Runbook

Currently AIOps Allows the administratiors to create the runbooks with mulitple actions steps inside them however they limit the user from running the actions in parallel. Only Sequential run of the actions is allowed in the current functionality....
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Full integration with Green Pixie

Green Pixies GreenOps solution is fully integrated with Apptio A1 and can export from CLDY to run their emissions enrichment service, however, it would be most useful if there was full integration with Green Pixie within Cloudability in order to v...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Under review