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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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Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

NOC needs to add PDU Loss detected by Versa probes between SDWAN Tunnel Endpoints

The "Loss" Value that SevOne uses to trigger the PPM Polices is based on the FWD & REV Loss and NOT the PDU Loss. The FWD & REV Loss are not class specific and measure loss of data received in either direction. The key thing here is if, as...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 1 Needs more information

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 3 Needs more information

Customisable legend in AIOps Topology Viewer

Looking at the screenshot attached, we are using some custom background and border colors. Within the topology view, there is a legend, which explains to the users, what the icons and colors in a topology visualisation mean. Having a customisable ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

For SevOne DI Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics views, create performance health score summary representations at the device and location level (i.e. Jitter, Latency, MoS, etc.)

Would create a Top level Executive, Engineering Capacity and Operational Management service health performance views based on provided locations/sites/devices
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

ML: Auto JE Filtering in GL and Cost Pool Mapping Using Some Field Combinations

Some customers face challenges in identifying which journal entries are related to IT spend and in mapping cost pools within the GL, as the granularity of accounts and cost centers is insufficient. With following functionality, many customers coul...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration