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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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Using "self time" in Smart Alerts

Is it possible to use the metric "Self Time" in a Smart Alert ? Specifically, it is about the monitoring of an API gateway. Since the response time depends on the caller and the called system, but it would be important to know if the self time of ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Upgrade the use of EWS to Graph API

Microsoft is urging everyone to move away from the current EWS API and instead use the Graph API due to security concerns.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2

Add incident creation policies based on a specified number of alerts

Administrators should have the ability to create incident policies that specify conditions on number of alerts associated to an incident. For example, if incident policies are triggered only off of alert severity, a large number of incidents could...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add noise reduction statistics and any other defined KPIs for every individual incident and event grouping

In the AIOps Insights dashboard, several KPIs (including noise reduction %) are automatically calculated across all system data over a specified period of time. In order to communicate unique value from CP4AIOps on a smaller scale, these numbers s...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Allow multiple columns can be sorted at a time

Currently TEPS only allow a single column can be sorted at a time. It does not allow sub-sort and needs to get multiple columns to make more dynamic display.
8 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Ability to open multiple browser sessions to view different filtered console views

NOC has different filtered views in the event browser and needs the ability to be able to open several browser windows. Currently, Watson keeps logging users out when trying to open multiple browser sessions.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

I want to use Regex when creating a group based on a pattern in Accounts

A client had AWS Accounts with UAT in their names. We wanted to create a group of VMs from all these UAT Accounts. These UAT machines could be scaled more quickly without too much approval. ie. Accounts .*UAT.*
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add context aids when creating Rules for topology

When creating Merge rules and Tags rules within the Topology Configuration page, more context should be provided for the variable you supply in the "Tokens" field. If you are new to adding these kinds of rules, there is very little context in the ...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Manually set interface speed

For devices that either don't have a speed such as virtual interfaces or interface where the speed can't be modified on the device side. It would be useful to be able to set the speed manually from SevOne. One example would be why we may not be ab...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration