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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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Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
9 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Customisable legend in AIOps Topology Viewer

Looking at the screenshot attached, we are using some custom background and border colors. Within the topology view, there is a legend, which explains to the users, what the icons and colors in a topology visualisation mean. Having a customisable ...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 1 Submitted

AIOps Topology template to filter on elements' alert status

When creating dynamic templates, we sometimes run into issue that the resulting resource groups are quite huge (1000+ elements). From an operator's perspective, the focus is usually on resources having issues (alerts). We'd therefore like to have ...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
3 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
3 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
3 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted