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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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Monitor Windows Task Status

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

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

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 ...
13 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

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...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
6 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

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...
12 days ago in Instana / MQ 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...
21 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

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...
12 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 ...
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review