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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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Single Unified Dashboard and Management for Multiple customers

for MSP like us, it is important to have a single dashboard and management pane of Instana for ease of administration, unlike today where each customer has a different URL and support engineers end up logging into different URL for supporting client.
18 days ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Update the NMS to allow customer defined VPC endpoints for AWS Monitoring

To gather monitoring metrics, the SevOne AWS plugin utilizes a set of unknown (to the user) AWS endpoints published by Amazon, and subject to change. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json SevOne documentation requires only an outbound 443...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Improve the vCenter observer for CP4AIOPS and ASM.

Current observer contains a lot of resources that have limited value by themselves and should be properties of a parent. For example virtual servers are a resource but the observer also creates a child resource for each VM called CPU that contains...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

French Language Support in Data Insight

We are currently in a Proof of Concept with Orange Business Services in France. OBS are a Managed Service Network Provider who operate globally but 60% of their customer base is French speaking. French Language support in the product will help us ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Policies when doing Initial Placement should include VM Dynamic Filter Logic

When using the Place/Initial Placement functionality, part of the process is selecting Placement or Do Not Place Policies in addition to the Scope. When selecting a VM template and selecting a Place Policy that has Dynamic criteria (e.g. if a VM h...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration