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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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get license information from API

in order to be able to manage licenses, it would be great to have the possibility to query the license usage and license "valid to" dates from the API instead of manually gathering them from the UI.
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Adding search for Predictive Analysis by Topic

In Dashboard on pages Service Diagnosis Anomaly Search and Service Diagnosis Metric Search, which are showing data form Predictive Insight 1.3.6, it would be very helpful to be able to filter data by topics. At the moment we see only Resource, Met...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Excluding specific endpoints from monitoring

Instana agent discover and monitor all endpoints however some of them may be irrelevant,under maintenance or fixing progress. So it will be useful to disable/exclude specific endpoints from monitoring when needed. This feature may help us to monit...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Fixed threshold for Metrics Anomalies

Metrics Processing currently works based on a dynamically measured baseline and alerting based on the various models. In the majority of scenarios, this will deliver positive business outcomes. It would be beneficial to also be able to set a "Fixe...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Excluding specific services from Application Perspective Scope

It is not possible to exclude some of the downstream calls(for ex:excluding only DB calls) from definition. Filtering feature does not support the necessity above, so we cannot define exact perspective.
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboard queries shows misleading retention information in case of approximation

We have example in custom dashboard were some panels with complex queries show approximation because of retention where the real reason is query time-out. Although we believe this is a flaw we were asked to raise feature request. So please conside...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 6 Future consideration

sort the column headers in the manage policies page in IBM Watson Correlation tool

We should be able to sort the column headers in the manage policies table. We have changed the temporal policy to be review only first. So we want to sort on occurrence and start reviewing the top occurred policies before pushing to stakeholders.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Netcool Impact: manage scripts via source code management systems (Bitbucket / Git)

Add integration support to Bitbucket (Git) to allow end users to manage policy code on a project basis.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration