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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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Add a WYSIWYG or Rich Text HTML Editor to the HTML Component

Please add a WYSIWYG HTML editor to the HTML component. Currently, there is only the option to edit in raw html. If you add a reference to an editor like TinyMCE (https://www.tiny.cloud), it would enable us to edit the contents of an HTML componen...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Date Range Toggle Month to Quarters in Cloud Total Cost

We often show our Cloud Total Cost reports to Finance and lead engineers throughout the year. We would like to have the option to toggle between either showing Months in the Date Range dropdown in CTC, or Quarters. This way we get the flexibility ...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sendevent using restapi

We have developped a tools which manage many cases coming from migration from CM/Autosys/.... and this tools use restapi and we would like to use also restapi to simulate the sendevent and replace the sendevent of Autosys. But this sendevent API f...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus EIF SDK should support Windows Server 2022.

We plan to use Log File Agent & Netcool EIF SDK(posteifmsg) under Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition in Oct/2022. Log File Agent is supported now, but EIF SDK is not yet supported now. Please support EIF SDK for Windows Server 2022. ______...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba - No Filtration properties available on subscribing to Event Notifiation

Probe - nco_p_huawei_u2000_corbaUnlike other CORBA probes where we have the option of filtering the alarms while subscribing to the real time alarms/Notification IRP services. nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba doesn't provide any options/properties to subs...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration