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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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Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Export list of Tables in Apptio

Would like to export list of tables and folder information as Excel, csv or tab data. For creating monthly IT operation manual, it would be easier to have list of table in data. Sometimes when creationg technical reference document, objects such a...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
9 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Board view - use backslash instead of forwardslash in horizontal/vertical setup

Changing the forward slash to backslash in the lane for horizontal/vertical lanes in boards. This way they would look more like the Excel, where if you have a table and drawn lane for one cell, it is crossed down like backslash.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Action Center Proof-UI: Better explaining reasons for Turbonomic's resource decisions, especially cluster scaling

If Turbonomic generates host provision actions the risk listed in the pending actions widget or in the action center is e.g. named "Clone <host name> on cloned ...". This is not the risk why Turbonomic has decided for a cluster scaling. The ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Enable users to be configured with a "Read Only" Role

With the extension of capabilities in AIOps to include a more "business" concepts such as "Incidents" there are a lot more users who would benefit from having a realtime view. This will enable the customer to extend the visibility of business impa...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Use traditional Netcool OMNIbus icon in Connectors

Netcool is a legend! Give credit to its history and give us back our beloved Netcool OMNIbus icon. The large user base will be pleased and grateful.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Resource Grouping Topology Connectivity for a Specific Group

Hello Team, In the ITNM, there is an option to create a Network view. That would contain the connectivity of all the devices in that view. In ASM, when we did the Resource Grouping based on a site, the devices are grouped but there is no connectiv...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release