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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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Missing self monitoring from documentation for every release

As we are self hosting our instana backend we need to know what metrics etc we need to look for to make sure the instana backend is running correctly. As of now we have to guess what metric we have to check.
30 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Supergroup parent should Inherit of Journals from merger groups' parent event

Currently, when a supergroup is created, it doesn't have journal from the merged group's parent events. Lots of customers populate custom fields of parent events based on probable cause or first event in the groups. In absence of complete informat...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

User-friendly feature needed: GUI-based preexisting setup/config clone to create new

AS-IS: each new custom setup (incl. observer job config, policy, etc.) we have to manual enter all para one by one. Desired TO-BE: ================= Target use case (NOT limit to, but same principle cross over): #1. Define > Integration (Incl. ...
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration needs to support the objects included in the JSON format

The current Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration should be able to parse the current Elastic Common Schema as defined here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-log.html
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Under review

Integration > Dynatrace(DT) > events load: to-include associated ticket (DT# P-)info

AS-IS: ====== Integration > dynatrace > event load > post-load event: incident & alerts page > no dynatrace P- info found, P- is dynatrace side ticket# info. Note: current cloudpak seems to grab the events from {dynatrace-SAAS-...
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support oAuth for integration with 3rd party platforms

Unlike Basic Auth, OAuth doesn't provide the weakness in sharing password data. oAuth uses authorisation tokens to verify an identity. Many vendors that provide platform access, provide an optional or mandatory mechanism of API access. Versa for e...
16 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Under review

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

All pages that have a graph and filtering radio buttons should also filter the included data table below the graph

In an enterprise environment, focusing on the critical issues is the primary use case driver of using an APM. As such, being able to quickly, and easily sort and order issues is critical. On the various event graphs there is a radio button to hide...
18 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review