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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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SevOne only has single Severity option for Custom Polling Policy

Need to adjust Severity for different thresholds within a policy. Example: >=70 Major, >=85 Critical.
almost 2 years ago in SevOne 2 Planned for future release

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Improve CNEA Policy UI

the current version of policy UI does not allow to administer policies properly. there is no search, no chance to get an overview, etc. If the system detects a lot of policies, (> 1000) which is most time the case, the UI becomes unusable
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Device discovery using traps

The ask if for the capability to perform a device discovery from the trap received by the NMS. In addition to the existing discovery methods available, the NMS should have the capability to add the device if not already added if a trap is received...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Concatenation of variable is translating to Password

Hi IWA Team, I had a requirement to put the password as a concatenated variable and migrate the code to next instance. I have created the composer file for 100 jobs and in password section i have added ${password.key1}${password.key1} Then i used ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Character Limitation on Variable length for a variable in Variable table.

Hi IWA team, We had a requirement where the parameter was more than 1500 character. We were not able to use the variable since there is limitation of 1025 characters, Could you please remove this limitation? Regards Lochan
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

An option during the upgrade or uninstall of an agent to only choose the Dynamic Agent and not the FTA

During the installation of an agent, an option is available (-agent dynamic|fta|both) to choose which type of agent to install, either a Dynamic Agent (DA) or an Fault-Toerant Agent (FTA). A similar option must exist for upgrade (-update) and unin...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists