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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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Ability to create SmartAlert based of the executed Analyse query

When in unbounded analytics finding an "interesting" situation it would be practical to directly create a SmartAlert based on this to be alerted in case such situation arises again,
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Move enable/disable disruptive actions from Policy wide to action type

The option to enable/disable disruptive actions policy-wide is very restrictive. Most downscale actions are disruptive, but most upscale actions can be non-disruptive. In the current implementation, only a group of VM can be marked with this setti...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Application component actions don't have enough information

If you check the application component pending actions (heap resize) and extract the list to a spreadsheet or print the screen, there's nothing to separate for each area. There's no column for Account or Container cluster as example. In this case,...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Bring your own database

Resiliency is top of mind when maintaining a critical system such as Cloud pak for AIOps. Many enterprises have existing databases available to be used with existing approved backup/restore plans. If enterprises could bring their own database that...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

sort the column headers in the manage policies page in IBM Watson Correlation tool

We should be able to sort the column headers in the manage policies table. We have changed the temporal policy to be review only first. So we want to sort on occurrence and start reviewing the top occurred policies before pushing to stakeholders.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

we need feature to select alerts and export them to excel file

When we have several alerts on the same device or location we generate a report/excel file with all the related alerts and attach it to the Remedy Incident. Right now we have to do it manually. So we need feature to select alerts and export them t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Export Alerts and Incidents through one or more kafka channel/topic(s)

To continuously be able to export alerts and incidents to external systems, an export mechanism based on kafka is suggested.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

Include Resource Group details in Executed Actions widget

Please can I make a product improvement request. In the data export for the executed actions widget please can Cloud Resource Group and Cloud Account be included as fields in the executed actions data extract. These fields are present in pending a...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release