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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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Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration needs to support the objects included in the JSON format

The current Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration should be able to parse the current Elastic Common Schema as defined here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-log.html
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Under review

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Allow encryption key to be supported in DI

During a DI integration with identity provider (IDP). Notice if the encryption key is enabled at IDP, DI will not be able to authenticate the user. If disable encryption, user can be authenticated. Passing Token without encryption is a security lo...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Alarm Grouping Strategy based on assigned weight to the alarms

Assign weights to alarms within each group. The alarm with the highest composite weight score in a group becomes the primary root cause candidate. Use key fields from this highest-weighted alarm (like resource type, component, error patterns) to c...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Webagent Limit reset - High Business Urgency

We logged an IBM case: TS017640803 for missing data on our website monitoring (EUM). We discovered 2 things that need attention and IBM requested that we load an aha-idea for resetting limits on the webagent. Currently, there is a limit on the pag...
21 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0

Implement Custom Roles & RBAC Control via Entity/Tag

This would benefit all users of Turbonomic by allowing administrators to define custom roles, as well as the permissions applied to these roles either globally or by entity/tag and their respective child objects. This would enable application owne...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 11 Future consideration

Asset Class in Summary Tab

Currently asset class column is only part of Asset tab, so dropdown values will be shown only in Asset tab. You can use Project and Description to help identify the assets but not all assets have a Project ID or a unique description. Could this be...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Search Box

I would love to have a "search box" where a user can enter text and the report will return the list of relevant records, such as relevant applications. this will work just like the "ehancement idea" search box on this idea page. there are no repor...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Needs more information

"Last Uploaded" date

As per the design behaviour, the "Upload" step shows upload times in GMT-7:00 (PST) timezone and not in the Customers local timezone (see attached screenshot). This is in our opinion misleading and confusing. Apptio is requested to change this so ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review