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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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Flow Rules and ability to block unknown

I would like a way to block all "unknown" flows from all flow collectors such that I do not process flows I do not want to have in my system. These unknown sources eat resources on collectors and I would rather an a "deny ip any any unknown" type ...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Flow Rules and grouping Collectors

I would like a way to have a group of flow collectors in SevOne grouped then be able to use that group inside flow rules. Thus allowing me to have a USA group, An EMEA group and so on. Now I can easily say "For all flow collectors in the DNC_Japan...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Support tracing of RMI calls in the same JVM.

Our information system rely a lot of on RMI calls between components ( EJB). To optmize those calls we have deployed multiple components in the same JVM. When a component A calls component B in the same JVM, INSTANA does not trace the call to B co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Add Cross-Cloud Data Transfer Costs in Workload Planning

In Workload Planning, it would be highly beneficial for customers to have visibility into cross-cloud data transfer costs. For example, if a workload operates across both AWS and Azure, the associated data transfer costs between these clouds shoul...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description.

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description. For example threshold is configured for generate the event if utilization is more than 80% then what was exact utilization that time (like 81%, 83% or 87% etc)
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Not under consideration

Support tracing of ICAP-calls (protocol technology support)

Hello,we have service application using ICAP protocol to send and receive data to be virus scanned.It would be awesome to see this calls in Instana
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Reports should have an increased number of pivots

Currently, when the number of pivots exceed a certain number, the report errors out with " Too much pivot columns for <column name>;. Please, apply additional filters or change report settings. " This limitation should be addressed and the n...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Allow percentage parameter for consistent resize fault tolerance (on top of number of nodes)

The current private preview version of Consistent Resize Fault Tolerance support allows for configuration of "number of nodes" a group is capable of losing and supporting from a resize perspective. This idea is to allow configuration by percentage...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Enabling API URL for CSV for egress activity

As a part of Egress activity, we need to send reports in CSV format to downstream system. But API URL in Apptio reports are not supporting CSV. There are number of other systems that expects file in CSV format. It will ease our job if we enable CS...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review