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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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DI Report Section Navigation - Manage when section count overflows the browser/screen width

To avoid splitting related content into additional Reports, a more intuitive way to visually support more Report Sections than fit in the browser width is needed. Current "scroll-wheel" functionality is not intuitive and not portable among differe...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

DI When adding Widget, Data settings are lost if the user navigates to another configuration tab before pressing Run.

Content creators lose time if they forget to press Run after selecting a list of Resources when creating.or modifying a Widget, and then navigate away from the Data configuration tab. Even saving a Report that has not been Run one time will lose a...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

DI Default Permissions to Public/ReadOnly when a "Template Report" is created.

Report Templates created today default to Public/ReadWrite, which allows ANY user to modify them. While this may make sense in very small deployments, larger organizations that use DI need to control who updates shared directional content like Tem...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Limit what files are copied per pod by instana-instrumentation-init

The typical duration of instana-instrumentation-init is 2 seconds. This becomes an issue during node consolidation and when pods are moved to a new node. I’ve analysed the reason for this slow performance, and it is likely due to the init containe...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

SNMPv3 Engine ID changes

Incorporate the SNMPv3 engine id CHANGE natively within the product
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Optimize Load time for dependencies/Flow tab under application perspectives

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down and historical in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

ServiceNow Observer Filter exclude or include on each table

Currently ServiceNow observer filtering option for Include or Exclude works globally on all API calls. This poses a problem when we wanted to filter based on certain attributes which are not globally available on all tables. Because of this we are...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Global Smart Alert to have ability to filter by error message and endpoint name for adaptive threshold type.

Once we create global smart alerts for application perspective dashboard we have option to select filter (end point name or error message) for static threshold based alerts we are looking similar functionality for adaptive threshold based global S...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration