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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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SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
21 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

Enhancement of Quick Filters to display more than 150 recent entities

Currently Quick Filters has a limitation of the entities which shows 150 recently viewed items. This makes some of them invisible unless the name will be used un the search.
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

Certificate the integration between Netcool Omnibus JDBC Gateway and OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

The customer wants to integrate the Netcool Omnibus Gateway JDBC (NOI 1.6.11 on-premise) to OCL (Oracle Clous Infrastructure Oracle 19). we create the case TS015960524 and IBM support says that the Netcool JDBC Gateway is not certificated and not ...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Update the NMS to allow customer defined VPC endpoints for AWS Monitoring

To gather monitoring metrics, the SevOne AWS plugin utilizes a set of unknown (to the user) AWS endpoints published by Amazon, and subject to change. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json SevOne documentation requires only an outbound 443...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Under review

Improve the Dynatrace integration so that it is useful: Proper proxy support and entity selection

The legacy Dynatrace Observer, which only pulled Topology, allowed for specific Dynatrace entities to be selected via the Dynatrace entitySelector syntax used to query the Dynatrace APIs, which allowed for granular determination as to which topolo...
24 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
15 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

CNEA doesn't create the groups for the events that occurred during CNEA outage due to any of the following reasons - looking for Native solution

CNEA doesn't create groups for the events that occurred during CNEA outage due to any of the following reasons. i. CNEA data flow issues ii. Down time due to backup process for Cassandra database customer is expecting once their downtime is over o...
29 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review