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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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Possibility to add formulas into custom columns

As a TBMA, we would like to create custom columns using formulas that can calculate its value based on already existing formulas
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

ASM Fabric and Tenant Jobs/Listeners to connect to all HA ACI controllers

Hello, This RFE is for ASM capability of a single Fabric and Tenant Job/Listener to connect to all ACI HA controllers. We have three APIC controllers in high availability mode. Currently, ASM ACI observer jobs/listeners only support on APIC contro...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Reflect Sum of Highlighted Fields

To improve user experience when collaborating within the plan or forecast, have the ability to highlight fields in Expense Planning and Summary Tabs to get a sum of those fields (similar to excel functionality)
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add custom user messages / pop ups in IT Planning

The regular 'What's new' pop-ups for each IT Planning update gave us the following idea: We, as TBM Office, want to be able to customize and set pop-ups / usermessages in IT Planning, maybe using the same technology as the update messages. This wo...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

AWS VPC Flow Logs Collector

Customer have application running in AWS Cloud and would like to have visibility of all traffic within VPC of all servers including Kubernetes cluster
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 0

Performance tuning for XML gateway for reading events from alerts.status and publising the same to different Servers.

This is the integrated part of Netcool Architecture and is available, but delay is observed, while sending the details to Humio or any 3rd party system. In out cases, we are sending the same to Humio Server and delay is observed, sometimes the del...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration