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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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Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

SevOne only has single Severity option for Custom Polling Policy

Need to adjust Severity for different thresholds within a policy. Example: >=70 Major, >=85 Critical.
almost 2 years ago in SevOne 2 Planned for future release

Technical Administrator User Type

It would be helpful if there could be a Technical Administrator user type/role that has most of the admin permissions but can be blocked from viewing entities in specific portfolios or processes for HR/Management use.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Provide a "performance per watt" metric for environments

The idea of a "performance per watt" metric for hardware environments - particularly x86 platform - would be a good way of distinguishing between server types at a fundamental sustainability level. I suspect the metrics needed for this are already...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 2 Future consideration

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Column "Created Date" to be Exportable with Layout

Allow a use to export that Created Date column (that is currently not allowed to be exported) plus normal expense-related fields and add the cautionary ‘pop-up’ commentary (not allow them to re-import the specified date fields); then allow them to...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Enable contextual search in Custom Reference Data entries

Custom Reference Data entries should enable contextual search during entering on both Name and Code columns.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

OMNIbis Probe for NNMi support of latest versions

The latest available version of Probe for NNMi (nco_p_hp_nnm) is 4.0, which supports NNMi 2019.11 as the latest version. The NNMi 2019.11 is very old and not supported on the RHEL 8.x. On the RHEL 8.x are supported following NNMi versions: 2020.0...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration