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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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Do not throw error for unneeded columns in imports that are present in the export file

Importing a file directly produced by the export data action should not throw any errors. The system should be able to export and immediately reimport with no issues or alterations to the data required by the user. I understand that cost center co...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
8 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Extend Incident Restriction Filter capability to allow custom Alert Fields to be used

Access Control (RBAC) is generally aligned to categories such as affected customer/environment, security restrictions etc. Source data allowing classification is present in the Alerts (and used successfully to enable Restriction Filters in the Ale...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Incorporate metadata into alerting

Operationally and for Management reports. Standardizing metadata fields across the diverse number of environments. Real-time synchronization of metadata. Alert policies that dynamically adapt to metadata changes.
15 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Gateway for Message_Bus v2 should include Transformer (and be fully compatible to nco_g_xml)

The new release of the Message Bus Gateway (v2) is announced as being more reliable and having better performance than the existing nco_g_xml. However, it turns out to not contain all the functionality. Our customer (main German Telco company) is ...
22 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

to add attachment option in email alerting using EWS probe

to enable the email alerting with the attachment. Currently in our environment we are monitoring email alerting with EWS probe in the standard format without any attachment option but we are currently trying to add some attachment in XML format so...
22 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

Ability to hide/disable shared costs in container insights page

Every organisation will have its own way to calculate shared container costs, cloudability by default is showing the shared costs which it thinks could be part of shared costs,it is adding confusion to the users, we don't have the ability to hide/...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review