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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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Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Need SSH support for kex algorithm diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256

We recently encountered an issue where ITNM is not support the kex algorithm supported by the device we want to interrogate.
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

NMS needs to contain functionality pre process SNMP String type values and based on identifiable returned string values assign an integer/number value and record that as the associated indicator metric value.

Within the area of responsibility for Verizon GTS there are several hundred SNMP objects that need to be tracked the return a STRING value instead of a number or integer. Many of the strings are fixed. e.g. a status code of "active" vs "inactive"....
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
13 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Cloudability | Optimize -> Rightsizing -> Filters -> Status

Under Optimize - > Rightsizing menu under Azure there are resources displayed which has tickets created and tickets are in Done state. Would be great to have opportunity to filter out (exclude alll Done tickets) tickets with status "Done". That...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Improve the vCenter observer for CP4AIOPS and ASM.

Current observer contains a lot of resources that have limited value by themselves and should be properties of a parent. For example virtual servers are a resource but the observer also creates a child resource for each VM called CPU that contains...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Object Groups in the Metadata widget: Allow the source group to be a Class. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the object groups within the selected Class.

It would allow the widget to display object groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

At the top of each Performance Metrics widget, have a toggle button for every feature that is enable from the Analyze widget settings tab.

A widget with many indicator rows requires clicking on each row to disable or enable them in the view. It would be nice to, with one click, be able to just turn on or off all baselines, time-over time, percentile, trend, etc.
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration