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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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Provide switch on Event Viewer to make that instance read-only

Currently a Page loads a map in top half and EV in bottom.Icons on map do one of 3 things1)Update the EV on bottom.2)Open EV in new window3)Open LEL (or replacement) in new window. This is the RO view of "other"alarms Requirement : It Is Item 3 - ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator (SLOv1)

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
almost 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name. I
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Specific Dates Identified to Amortize Bonus Payments

Customer needs the ability to amortize bonus payments over specific start and end dates.    Some employees get full bonus in first year regardless of start date, others do not.  So the ability to prorate the bonus over a period of t...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

PHP 8.3 support

PHP 8.3 was released on 23 Nov 2023. Instana only supports 8.2, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
12 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Functionality already exists

Resource Filtering for Mediation Packs in Predictive Insights

It's currently only possible to filter on Metrics being pushed into Spark/Cassandra, being able to further filter and exclude resources deemed unimportant will help refine and focus Metrics being consumed by the Analytics engine and therefore gene...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

For instana to support monitoring of Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Automated/semi-automated remediations to address Security and Compliance violations for VMs/Servers

Empower self-healing remediation with low and zero touch for cost avoidance. As a Cloud Admin , I want to be informed about any Security & Compliance deviation in my Client´s environments so I can take the necessary actions to avoid audit issu...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Real time visibility of Security & Compliance posture/state of VMs/Servers

Ensure the clients' environments are managed according to regulatory standards (PCI, HIPPA, etc). Visibility of the posture is the key to enable that. As a Security Analyst (ISA, ISM, GSPM, Security DPE), I need real time visibility about Security...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration