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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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Create additional fields for interfaces collected by the SevOne Observer for AIOps

1) In the current version of the SevOne Observer, there is no way to associate interface into a resource group. There is no field to identify what device a interface belongs to. A field should be added to the interface record that includes the dev...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 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.
about 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

Allow for re-calculation of indicator of seconds/minutes/time

If creating a report based on indicators that have values in seconds, such as system uptime, DI should provide me the choice to change what the display shows. If the indicator normally displays as seconds, allow me to select days instead and show ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Functionality already exists

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...

When multiple alerts are sent to a given alert channel, send a single message instead of 1 message per alert

Some users have more than 50 applications. When a core application is down, all connected applications generate an alert. Then the user receive a lot of emails or teams messages, which makes it difficult to handle. We would like to add the possibi...
13 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Enable "Databases" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Databases" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs & opportunities for Databases service as well.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for "Volumes (Disks)" service as well.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration