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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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Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
10 days ago in Instana / MQ 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...
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
20 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Supported observer for ingesting Forward Networks topology

We have several customers asking for the ability to leverage Forward Networks topology data in Cloud Pak for AIOps. Forward Networks is their main source of truth used for network discovery and network management, and we should be able to incorpor...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add more collection operators to filter expressions

Existing collection operators are ".Where", ".Count", and ".Contains". It would be useful to have other operators like ".sum", ".max", ".min", etc. The Metrics and Validation rules DSL support these operators; it would make sense for the filter ex...
6 days ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Submitted

NOC needs to add PDU Loss detected by Versa probes between SDWAN Tunnel Endpoints

The "Loss" Value that SevOne uses to trigger the PPM Polices is based on the FWD & REV Loss and NOT the PDU Loss. The FWD & REV Loss are not class specific and measure loss of data received in either direction. The key thing here is if, as...
6 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 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...
11 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 ...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Use "Alias" naming convention to replace "Account Name" for AWS data

For AWS data, use Alias feature to display account name. Customer would like to leverage this Apptio. Is there a way for Apptio to leverage the “alias” name instead of the actual Account name. The AWS portals display the “alias” name itself.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

syslog - 8 level(s) of notification - Customizing the SevOne alert levels for the 8 levels of Syslog Message.

When a syslog message is received by SevOne, we decide what color alert it gets. Currently there are default 8 levels of Syslog. Can those 8 colors be customized per NMS cluster instance? Like make it a whole new setting under "Cluster" > "clus...
4 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted