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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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Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

add a group-searchfilter for the external ldap

In a Full-Cloud installation of NOI 1.6.5 running on Openshift the normal ldap-config doesn't support spaces, therefor we added an external-ldap over the webgui-startup-configmap. In this configmap it is not possible to configure group-searchfilte...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

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

Need instana support for kubernetes traefik

Many customers using kubernetes tracfik as their web server in China mainland. We need instana support for Kubernete tracfik to development business.
8 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Add operator instruction for jobs and jobstreams as Z workload Scheduler

We ask to have the possibility to define the operator instructions in the product, as there is for the Z version. As an alternative solution, we ask to be able to see the comments field of the jobs and job streams in the current plan by all the dw...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Increase/decrease alert severity based on number alert occurrences

Goal is to minimize impact of flapping alerts. By using this feature SevOne users could set up exact number of alert occurrences after which they want to be notified in warning/error/critical severity. It will reduce spending time on alerts that a...
12 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 2 Planned for future release

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

Use websockets to establish communication between MCM Cluster Hub and the managed cluster (Public Cloud)

Sometimes the cluster hub could be installed in a data center with several security restrictions, with some exceptions the customer could open the outbound traffic to internet, in order to manage another cluster like EKS, AKS, etc. but at the end ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Consolidated device inventory report and ad hoc email feature

Currently sevone device inventory report is very limited with fields. Even though sevone have the data many of the device properties are unable to use it in report without additional customization. Suppose if a device kept in maintenance , we won'...
12 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 4 Future consideration