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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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extend Netcool OMNIbus message_bus jms transport layer to parse jms header meta data

actually the Netcool Message_Bus probe jms transport layer only parses the jms message payload data, but not the jms message header data. The jms header data contains important information like message-id, timestamps, object-uri, etc. which is imp...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Collapsible bottom panel on Incident > Affected Resources tab

In an Incident, the Affected Resources tab has a bottom panel which is not collapsible and leaves very little room to examine the topology graph.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
2 months ago in Instana 1 Under review

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Can Cloudability fetch data only for specific business units within a shared tenant environment, where cloud subscriptions are used by thousands of business units worldwide?

We are in discussion with a large international company in Norway that has a great emphasis on professionalizing the way they work with FinOps. Our business partner Valoro have a dialogue with them and learned that currently they do not have a pro...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Under review

Integration with Greenpixie for sustainability data

Greenpixie is a leader in enriching AWS cost data with detailed sustainability metrics. Having sustainability information in Cloudability along other cost and utilisation information would bring GreenOps and FinOps together based on trusted and ac...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Anomaly Detection - Provide Account Group Tag & Export functionality

As a FinOps Practitioner, I need to be able to allocate anomalies detected to the appropriate owner, however, am not able to pull in account group tag info. I am not able to export the data in the anomaly module from the UI, but I can use the API ...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review