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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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Mute or Silent specific service alert to exclude specific Node/Cluster from the filter

Mute/Silent alerts for Particular node or cluster which is making lot of noise. Please refer case ID TS016989752 for the same.
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Create public Data Insight Reports

Hi team, regarding the Data Insight reports, at the moment you can display them if you login into DI appliance first. However, some of our leadership team doesn't have credentials to login into SevOne, so for that reason we would like to have the ...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Request to enhance the JDBC gateway to enable connections to two Databases in a single gateway process

Request to allow JDBC gateway to write to two databases in a single gateway process - This allows us to write to different databases at the same time ensuring the delivery of all alarms to both the databases simultaneously.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Topology Manager Observer for Versa SD WAN

Customer RFP to replace Ericson CNEX is asking for a service assurance solution that includes events, topology and performance. We can collect performance data with SevOne and events with Message Broker probe, the only missing part is topology.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

To be able to monitor PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 4 Planned for future release

Update reference data permission

Requesting to have the permission to update reference data in an open plan to be a permission separated out from other admin capabilities. Use case is to have resource in Europe update the reference data earlier in the day than US resource on TBMO...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Bookmarking Cost Transparency Reports with User preference selections

Hello P&E team,  Would like to share a strong demand from our user's point of view where they would like to save or bookmark one of our customized reports in Cost Transparency on the selection they have made prior to saving the snapshot. ...
9 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Forward slots from event custom fields as part of the body when using a outgoing webhook to forward incidents to a external event management tool

When forwarding events via the outgoing webhook integration to an external event management tool (BMC Truesight Operations Manager) i.e. CPU, Filesystem, swap space etc. We only see event info and resource affected slots passed with the body. Key ...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 4 Not under consideration