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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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IM: Support custom buttons on VMs and Templates page

Currently custom buttons for VMs are only available on the Compute ->Infrastructure ->Virtual Machines -> VMs This is not very intuitive as the view for virtual machines defaults to: Compute -> Infrastructure -> Virtual Machines -&g...
5 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Events (Syslog and SNMP Traps) parsing tool - Drag & Drop Capabilities

Why is it useful? Existing and new customers spend a lot of time doing the parsing of events received by generic probes (as syslog, snmp, glf, etc) since those include a generic rules file. However, most of them have custom Object Servers Columns ...
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Excluding specific endpoints from monitoring

Instana agent discover and monitor all endpoints however some of them may be irrelevant,under maintenance or fixing progress. So it will be useful to disable/exclude specific endpoints from monitoring when needed. This feature may help us to monit...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Fixed threshold for Metrics Anomalies

Metrics Processing currently works based on a dynamically measured baseline and alerting based on the various models. In the majority of scenarios, this will deliver positive business outcomes. It would be beneficial to also be able to set a "Fixe...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Optimize download when installing in an offline environment

When following the documented installation procedure for CP4AIOps Infrastructure Automation offline deployment, an extremely large download file is produced. This download contains multiple versions of operators and components and requires conside...
7 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 3 Under review

Support auto scaling/increment of AIOPs component's PVC claim when current claim is 80% or more of current capacity of PVC storage and automatic End user notification about AIOPs health

We have observed one issue - the Netcool connector stopped processing new Events from ObjectServers. We founded out that pvc netcool-vct-netcool-conn- pvc was full, we extended it to 100mb from original 50mB. This has resolved the issue temporally...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review