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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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Maintenance Dashboard needs Enhancement

Currently the Maintenance Dashboard has the option of creating a Maintenance Schedule for suppressing the alert but as per our audit requirements we need to have the informations about 1. Who created the schedule? 2. Why was this schedule created?...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for "Real" data type representation in the WebGUI

We need to have a "Real" data type on our object server which we will later use for creating a custom page and line chart graph on it. On the line chart graph, we need to put a latency param and latency threshold which both are real numbers (0.8, ...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Netcool Omnibus WebGUI widget - Value status Gauge

We have been using netcool for event management for long time. Before Webgui we were using WebTop. There was java based system of maps to create views/pages. Now in DASH we can use widget. Problem is, that we cannot create same view with lot of "b...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Mandatory predecessors for TWSd.

In TWS 9.1 is announced a new type of predecessors who allow waits for at predecessor, which is not in the plan at Make-plan time. But this new type is only deliveret to TWSz in TWS version 9.1. Please also deliver the mandatory predecessor type f...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhance the Workload Widget to show where new workloads are coming from to properly estimate and manage Turbo licenses.

There is a widget called Workload Improvement – and it has 3 types, On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid. I think it would be VERY useful if we add various parameters to this graph (focusing mostly on cloud) 1)Provider (aws, gcp, azure0 2) Subscription (Acco...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Adding alerting or report to dashboard

Im trying to build an OPS dashboard for a client that require fast reaction time when it come to detection of server's issus.in order to do that, i've build a dashboard that i try to display on a tv using brigthsign device (still trying to figure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration