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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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Add support for discovery of Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches in TADDM

Issue that TADDM is not supporting discovery of Cisco 9000 switches was raised with TS012734132 case. CTJTD0871W No IP interface was found error is being reported during the discovery of those devices. No relationships to endpoints is being discov...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
10 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Future consideration

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 4 Future consideration

RBAC for IBM Runbook Automation (RBA)

Why is it useful? - This would make the RBA more secure, scalable, robust, and enables secure self-service automation capability. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this, particularly security c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Using "self time" in Smart Alerts

Is it possible to use the metric "Self Time" in a Smart Alert ? Specifically, it is about the monitoring of an API gateway. Since the response time depends on the caller and the called system, but it would be important to know if the self time of ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Upgrade the use of EWS to Graph API

Microsoft is urging everyone to move away from the current EWS API and instead use the Graph API due to security concerns.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Endpoint grouping for mobile monitoring

Background & Context Endpoint grouping is very useful for monitoring REST API's. The problem we face is that we cannot properly compare endpoint traffic in backend with endpoint traffic monitored from frontend, as the endpoint grouping does no...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration