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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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User role impactOpViewUser should not allow editing and deleting Operator Views

An explicit 'user' role should not allow 'admin' tasks such as editing and deleting components that are relevant to other users. However, this is the case with the Impact role impactOpViewUser. Users with this role are allowed to edit and delete a...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
6 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Use the more secure Azure Managed Identity instead of SAS token when authenticating SevOne DataBus (SDB) against a Kafka enabled Event Hub

Currently, our SevOne DataBus (SDB) feed is sending to an Azure Event Hub as the Kafka Consumer endpoint. Authentication relies on a SAS token (SharedAccessKey). The use of SAS tokens as an authentication mechanism is proved to be less secure, and...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

Composer cmd to display Locked objects in the DB

We have a need for a new composer command that displays all objects in "Locked" status in the DB. Would like to have this ability for all the different type of objects that can get Locked in the DB. Jobs, Jobstreams, Resources, Variable Tables, Ca...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration