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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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Show all information of the selected time period in the Kubernetes views

If a time period is selected and the user want to view Events and Pods of an kubernetes object (Deployment/Service/etc.) Instana only shows the Pods and the Events of the Pods that were "online" at the endpoint of the time period. For many users t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

extract more then one group with regex in the omnibus-probe

Regex support multiple groups but not in the Omnibus-probe. I have test it and only the fist group is shown. Example. $input="testTEST1testTEST2test" $output=extract($inpunt,"test(.*)test(.*)test") $output will show "TEST1" But I like to see " TES...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Capability to customize NPI Network Performance Overview Dashboard

Capability to customize Network Performance Overview Dashboard on NPI to remove some of the statistic that are not use.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2 Not under consideration

Documented API twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun

We use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/action/rerun which is well documented but we need alos to use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun API which not documented. This AP...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to save & restore, clone Event & Alert configurations or create templates

Use cases: - When Events and Alerts are created, users would benefit to have ability to save configuration as a template to use as baseline for other events - save configuration to be able to revert back to after trying some changes - as a work ar...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" event and able to search node name with exact match

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" subscribed event and able to search node name with exact match.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Add customizable columns to the event page

It would be nice to have customizable columns on the events list.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration