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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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Defining metrics collection with filter on resources name (or equivalent way to avoid colecting ALL of that metric), as a way to scale the deployment.

We have enabled collection of metric from APM (Dynatrace) and the definition of the connection do not allow to define filtering for the resources we are interested on, so enabling metrics that applied to many resources will cause a big amount of K...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Datalink Classic Cloudability connector -request for selecting dates for connection

Hello,  can you please add functionality to allow selection of the days of the month on which the connection should run? The request is for functionality that allows selection of the days on which the connection should run until the end of ti...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Schedule workspace to automatically check in changes

We would like to be able to schedule the automatically check in to our spaces to eliminate joint check in's and waiting time. In our case, we work in 2 teams from 2 different countries, therefore we currently allign on each check in we perform in ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Enhancement to Scope-based Event Grouping

Enhancement to the scope-based event grouping extension to allow customization on the minimum number of traps for a synthetic event to be created. For example having grouping on a single trap doesn't really provide much benefit to end users. Addit...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

publish Agent release notes with every Agent release

Currently some agents are pinned to a specific version, whilst other dynamic agents auto update. We control which versions are deployed where this way to ensure problems that occurred in the past do not reoccur. Updating pinned agents currently is...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Customer wants a more sophisticated Turbonomic system status page

The customer is concerned with hard outages and soft (data) outages. Wants to see this on one page. - like apple or datadog platform status page. Can we pull the details of the current System Health and System Alert pages into one cohesive page. A...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Add authentication capabilities to eum-acceptor download GeoLite2 DB from sources with authentication.

Dear colleagues, Our customer was trying to associate EUM transaction with geographical location while using self-hosted Instana. We can specify the location of GeoLite2 DB by setting the location in Instana core manifest, but there is no way to s...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Need provide appropriate solution for EUM to collect data using gateway

Dear colleagues, following the Standard Instana deployment instructions in the dashboard to set EUM monitoring doesn't allow to determine IP Address because Instana gateway configuration doesn't have proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; config...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

The policy based alert based on flow conditions also to send out a flow output

This is useful in organisations to rapidly have the information available for i.e top talkers whilst a high utilisation event is being triggered.
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

automatic clearing of events log

events fill up and alerting stops
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release