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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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Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need Cisco IOS Software [Cupertino], C9800 Software (C9800_IOSXE-K9), Version 17.9.5 to be supported

Issue: BT has 2 clusters with different WIFI device software versions. One is working on WIFI 6.5 and the non working is on 6.7.1. The Cisco device software versions are: Version 17.9.5 device is functional in another cluster under SNMP v2. Versio...
4 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 1 Planned for future release

Close or surpress event based on condition

This is an enhancement/feature request re. capability to close events or suppress events based on conditions met, in order to have a (more) precise and flexible event duration rather than the default duration
4 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Ability to customize the version 10.1 Workload Designer.

To make the Workload Designer fit the needs of the customer end users. We will like to have the ability to customize the Workload Designer.These are the customizations possibilities we will like to have in the Workload Designer: 1 . The ability to...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Enable probe and other properties via UI

There are several instances today where the customer needs to change a property via swagger or going into the yaml file and adding probe or other component/global properties. This is not a great user experience and it would be ideal if user has th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Enable Profiling for Applications on Windows OS

Customers need the ability to identify hotspots at a very granular level, this will help them further troubleshoot Windows hosted applications and services. All customers current and future will benefit from this. This capability should work just ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3

WebGUI - Warning message on executing right click tools

Requirement:On executing right click tool in WebGui for multiple alerts a warning message should be displayed. Right click tools configuration should have the capability where we can define some kind of threshold on number of alerts selected and d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Data Insight Maps : Support for multiple data sources in the same Map.

Larger customers have their network performance data collected and stored using multiple NMS Clusters. It would be deeply beneficial to support adding nodes/paths to a DI Map that represent devices/objects managed across multiple NMS Clusters. Thi...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration