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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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Delete/nullify result in synthetics

Hello, currently in Instana, we have the synthetics. They run and produce results. We, as users, don't have any possibles interaction regarding those results. We can't validate them, nullify them in case of false positive, delete them, acknowledge...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Mean on each call for the synthetics

Hello, today when we create a synthetic, we can view in the result tab the informations about each call and subcall. My idea would be to create a new tab on the synthetic view that compile a mean for each value of each calls on all the synthetic r...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Allow multiple instances of the same variable type in reports

Currently, in DI 7.2, only one metadata field can be included as a variable. The request is to enable multiple instances of the same variable type, especially metadata, in DI. Allowing multiple instances of the same variable type, particularly met...
10 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned
18 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution

Commitment Support for Azure VMware Solution
18 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Need feature enhancement for device and object group creation

Currently, when creating a device group using metadata, the model defaults to OR logic and does not support using two or more metadata fields with AND logic. We request a feature that allows the use of AND logic for more precise group creation.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Provide an Rest API to add, delete and enrich devices, interface and IP objects.

In our practice we have the need to Add (discover) new devices in an adhoc manner. Additionally, we also need to remove devices that are in the process of upgrades or RMA actions. Once devices are in ITNM we also have a need to manage meta data in...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration