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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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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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

nginx v29 support needed

Customer had to upgrade NGINX to v29 due to security issues. We need to speed up release for v29 because its not supported by the latest Instana version. Due to this reason customer has lost some monitoring abilities for their critical systems. Cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1 Delivered

ITP Variance Analysis - Add an Option for an "OR" Statement in the Variance Threshold

Currently, the Variance Analysis, when being set up, can only define a threshold as an AND statement (for example, Variance Analysis required if the variance is +-5% AND +-$10,000). Percentage and Numeric thresholds may be vastly different between...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Have a way export the Action Detail screen into a PDF document

It is good that we now have direct URL that can lead to individual Action Detail page. I will suggest we add a function to allow user to download/export the Action Detail page into a PDF document. This can be implement by ... 1. add an export butt...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Permission to Enable/disable Heap Dumps create Option (JVM Backchannel Options) from Instana UI

Dear IBM Instana Development Team, I am sharing some insights and suggestions from our Instana software experiences. While we greatly appreciate the software's capabilities, we have identified a potential area for improvement concerning the Heap D...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Add Support for Nokia Router 7750 SR

device does not appear to support the standard entity mib, the entity agent is not able to fetch the required containment data that is present on the enterprise mib.
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

AIOps Multi-Tenancy Support is crucial for the business expansion

Currently, Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps does not support Multi-Tenancy feature. It's crucial for IBM AIOps to support Multi-Tenancy for AIOps business expansion. There are two concepts of Multi-Tenancy in AIOps at the moment.The first is for separat...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Retain slicer selections when changing currency

Currently, when a user has slicers/columns selected and then change the reporting currency, all of their selections are reset. It would be great if this did not happen and the slicer/picker selections were retain. Same idea raised here for ITP b...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Delivered