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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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Custom dashboards: Copy or reference a widget from one dashboard to another

Background and context When creating many custom dashboards there is often the need to re-use a widget from one dashboard to another. One example is when creating a summary dashboard where widgets are re-used from several more detailed dashboards....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Security issue Removal of tacmd access needs to be implemented immediately without restarting the HUB as soon as a user should no longer have access, and without access being re-granted on next restart.

ITM Administrator has full tacmd admin right. User moves to a different department within the same company and the Administrative access is now inappropriate an security violation. As part of our security management their provisioned access would ...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

French support and documentation

We don’t have documentation or a French UI for the product. That could be a big blocker for HydroQuebec and GovQuebec
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

ITNM Network Views to support custom tables in NCIM

Hi, We have requirement to show devices discovered from 16 domains in single network view. Customer is having around 19500+ devices and segregrated across 16 domains. Customer wants to see all these devices in single view (filtered by Customer Nam...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Create App YAML that spans Containers, VMs and Cloud Services.

Allow definition of and Application Yaml that spans, Containers, VMS, Cloud services. and allows SLAs to be defined across them.
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Delivered

Support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x and v3.10.x

We need support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x (customer currently have 3.9.13) and v3.10.x. RabbitMQ v3.9.x is currently much more important but for a futureproof v3.10.x should be supported as well.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Delivered

I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Make Website Metrics available in SLO Widget

Make Websites metrics available in SLO Widgets. Stats like "First Contentful Paint", "Page Views", "Time to First Byte", and "OnLoad Time". Currently only Application perspectives are supported.
over 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

Ratio Based Alerts for HTTP Status Codes

Hi Team, I want to place a request to have alerts based on Ratio rather than just having based on having alerts on daily and weekly seasonality. This is required as we are growing. We might see some common errors increasing in the system and avoid...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered