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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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Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
20 days ago in Instana / Automation 3 Submitted

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 ...
4 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Cloudability support for AWS & Azure China

Our company is using Cloudability globally to manage all public clouds except for AWS & Azure in China. We'd like to have consistent way to manage FinOps in our global estate. Can Cloudability start to ingest data from AWS & Azure China.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Allow for re-calculation of indicator of seconds/minutes/time

If creating a report based on indicators that have values in seconds, such as system uptime, DI should provide me the choice to change what the display shows. If the indicator normally displays as seconds, allow me to select days instead and show ...
19 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Functionality already exists

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Splunk Connection Via Proxy

Connecting to Splunk instance behind a proxy is not working with the current Splunk Connector available in AIOps, this limits customer for major data source connection for Splunk.
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
19 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review