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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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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

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted. This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
16 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Create additional fields for interfaces collected by the SevOne Observer for AIOps

1) In the current version of the SevOne Observer, there is no way to associate interface into a resource group. There is no field to identify what device a interface belongs to. A field should be added to the interface record that includes the dev...
24 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

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

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release