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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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Windows .Net service getting discovered without adding package Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows

Windows .Net service should auto discovered in Instana once instana agent is installed in the host without any code instrumentation or without adding Nuget package this will help us to avoid new release.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Provide alternative to Multus for Cassandra replication

Bank of America is unable to leverage a Multus network on their OpenShift clusters in order to enable Cassandra replication for georesiliency. Full georesiliency for the datastores is an essential requirement for BofA to bring NOI / CP4AIOps into ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add privacy configuration option to collect full IP in mobile monitoring

Background and context Users IP are masked/anonymized by default in mobile monitoring (EUM/RUM) by setting the last octet of an IPv4 address to 0. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-mobile-app-faq#are-you-an...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

View Only Contracts for Cost Center Managers

We need the ability to have cost center owners have View Only access to their contracts tab. Only specific teammates within ITP edit for IT and not the owners of the cost centers. @Nitin Ningaiah @Greg Hahn @Bob Kerhin @Sally Garski @Dina Buszkiew...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Remote CLI administration for Netcool Impact

This RFE is to request support for a remote CLI for the administration of Netcool/Impact resources. Customer procedures will generally dictate that Impact policies/projects are stored in a version control system and then applied using the nci* com...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Support for Logging for IBM ACE

To compete with Nodinite that currently offers logging for IBM ACE. https://docs.nodinite.com/Documentation/LoggingAndMonitoring/IBM%20Integration%20Bus Could also be if we can use OpenTelemetry to gather logs from IBM ACE that may be an option?
8 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Functionality already exists

Addition of K8's events in custom payload to add in alerts

It would be really good to have k8s events under custom payloads to be added in alerts to let the spoc know where the issue lies ,or what happened at the last with the component,
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Expand All the Parent Child Grouping Alarms in WebGUI Event Viewer GUI

Our NOC team is looking for an option to expand all the parent child grouped alarms in single click. As of now, they are expanding single set of parent child group as per their need. If we have one option to use expand/collapse the grouping alarms...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review