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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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RESTapi performance tuning

Customer is using the REST API to verify that the Device IDs and Object IDs they have associated with the telecom inventory in their application is accurate. To do that, they are requesting about 4800 objects from the API. POST /api/v2/devices/obj...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under 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

Improve customizability of resource management UIs to serve as landing page for specific operators / business personas

The resource management pages should provide more customizability to show different data types and KPIs relevant to specific operators / business personas / application owners. When you are viewing an application/service in the resource management...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Launch directly to resource management page from login for particular service views

Users should be able to set preferences for the first screen they see after logging in to CP4AIOps. End users may want to go directly to the resource management page or a customized dashboard that shows them high level information about the status...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

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

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

Filter alert viewer on resource groups created in resource management

In CP4AIOps, there is no way to filter the alert viewer in the Alerts page on resource groups created within resource management. Customers would like the ability to provided filtered alert views on just specific applications that certain personas...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support sensor for enterprisedb (EDB)

EnterpriseDB (EDB) is IBM's strategic direction for Postgresql databases. Many IBM solutions including watsonx, IBM Cloud Paks/Foundational Services, and more will be using EDB going forward. EDB is also a strategic direction for IBM as we are an ...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under consideration