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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?
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Story(Incident) in UI should be able to suggest recommendation based on selected Alerts by Generative AI(WatsonX)

The Key use case of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, “AI Manager” is Proactive Incident Detect & Diagnose by leveraging AI(ML) technology. Story(Incident) in UI at current version, 3.7.x of AI Manager suggests top 3 Alerts which are related to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2

Ability to re-write the source in Netflow data for WLC's that managed hundreds/thousands of AP's.

We have an issue today where Cisco WLC are sending us netflow for hundreds/thousands of AP's. This makes reporting on a per site basis quite difficult. Customers who are using Cisco DNA have work arounds they can use in Cisco DNA, but it's somethi...
5 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 3 Future consideration

Consistent Resizing for Storage

Extend the concept of consistent sizing for grouped servers to storage on the grouped servers. For instance, if i have servers in a cluster or servers that have been grouped together via tagging and rule, if there is a recommendation for storage, ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration

Support configurable duration for DFA and RSD Slope-based Policy Conditions

The current fixed duration for DFA and RSD is too short to include Triggering on longer persistent behavior, like low Slope (e.g., flatlining when not at 0% or 100% utilization) Supporting up to the standard 2-hour duration setting would improve t...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Report "One-Shot" Mode.

Support a Report mode where each Section will populate once, and then not refresh when the user navigates between Sections, unless the user specifically requests a refresh, or edits the Report, requiring a refresh. The use case here is large Repor...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

DI Report Section Navigation - Manage when section count overflows the browser/screen width

To avoid splitting related content into additional Reports, a more intuitive way to visually support more Report Sections than fit in the browser width is needed. Current "scroll-wheel" functionality is not intuitive and not portable among differe...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

DI When adding Widget, Data settings are lost if the user navigates to another configuration tab before pressing Run.

Content creators lose time if they forget to press Run after selecting a list of Resources when creating.or modifying a Widget, and then navigate away from the Data configuration tab. Even saving a Report that has not been Run one time will lose a...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

DI Default Permissions to Public/ReadOnly when a "Template Report" is created.

Report Templates created today default to Public/ReadWrite, which allows ANY user to modify them. While this may make sense in very small deployments, larger organizations that use DI need to control who updates shared directional content like Tem...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration