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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 dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

TADDM scan support for cygwin 3.4.9

As we tested, for now TADDM is supporting scan of hosts with cygwin only to version 3.0.7. But there is a security issue with this version, and the customer's administrator needs to use cygwin newer versions, for example 3.4.7 or 3.4.9. I think th...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Changing labels is considered customisation.

Allow for a filed name and field display name to allow changes of field display names. Introduce "Language settings" which enable labels to be configured without customing and OOTB report.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Help functionality improvements.

Currently, the only help available takes you to the generic Apptio hello screens. This is not useful for our users because it in no way reflects the CBA model or reports or with CBA specific information. Suggestion: Ability to add field descriptio...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Improve Comments functionality.

Comments alerts are not intuitive and it's not easy for users to know they have a comment waiting. Suggestion: 1) Comments should be displayed as soon as you open a report 2) Comments should be able to be linked to a group of users or an individua...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Add schedule to Trap Event Editor

Hi team, regarding the Trap Event Editor that generates an alarm message when a specific trap is received, we would like to avoid the creation of this alarm message under a schedule given (in the same way that Policy Alerts do it). In that way, we...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Add Java Sensor Support for: Jobrunr Scheduling Framework as Quartz replacement

Intoduction: Quartz used to be the standard for scheduling in java application for years. For modern applications JobRunr is the new standard and used a lot in modern applications. https://www.jobrunr.io/en/documentation/alternatives/ Problem: We ...
about 1 year ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Filter Kubernetes namespaces

In some cases, customers want to install IBM Instana host agent on K8s workers nodes from K8s cluster managed by third party and used by several clients (shared resources). If worker nodes are dedicated for a customer, it could be great to be able...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Provide sample gitops process for Instana synthetics

Instana Synthetics is nodejs code so teams/users should keep it in a github repo for version control, security, compliance, tracking issues for changes etc The gap is automating deploying that code into an Instana account. By providing a sample gi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration