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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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Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Ability to have a "No Action" Compliance rule terminator

We want to be able to check if a device has a feature and then confirm it is configured correctly. If it does not have the feature, the compliance policy should not fail. There should be a rule "No Action" terminator for the compliance fule.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Integrated with the Cisco EOS Portal

Compliance and reporting to be integrated with Cisco EOS Portal so that we are informed of devices / ios are unsupported by Cisco
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

SQL-like query to access database

Existing REST API query has its limitation in term of supported function and debugging the result is taking too much effort. Customer is very familiar with SQL that allows them to query, join, exclude, rank the data per requirement.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Submitted

Add End User's IP Address and Hostname to INSTANA's Action Logs and Access Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure and identify security incidents. This is a requirement for PCI Certification.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Ability for RBAC to enable Objects on Team Scope

Use-case: To allow more flexible rules for allowing people access to specific entities it would be great to instead of selecting the entities (app perspectives, namespace, etc.) one by one, to allow a query builder approach in which we can use log...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Instana Health / Issue State queryable via API or Grafana Metrics

Introduction:-------------We have several Teams, which use internal Dashboard-Tools, which query multiple data sources (new-relic, check_mk, Prometheus, Splunk, etc., Openshift).These Tools make use of Health checks and Meta Informations.While mig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Trace Analyze: Show full log message when expanding a Log entry in Logs Panel in a Trace.

Current Issue: In the current layout of Trace Analyze, the log panel of a trace displays truncated versions of log messages. Often, these excerpts are too brief to provide sufficient context or understanding of the underlying issues. To view the c...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release