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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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For SevOne DI Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics views, create performance health score summary representations at the device and location level (i.e. Jitter, Latency, MoS, etc.)

Would create a Top level Executive, Engineering Capacity and Operational Management service health performance views based on provided locations/sites/devices
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Needs more information

Ability to close connections better from PostgreSQL blocks

At this time, a workflow does not have the ability to directly close a PostgreSQL connect from a PostgreSQL block. As far as I am aware, they instead remain open until they time out, which is typically 10 seconds or so. This enhancement would add ...
8 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Planned for future release

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
22 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Instana observing MinIO Object Storage

MinIO’s enterprise class features represent the standard in the object storage space. Customer needs to have observability at this level, more detail in this: https://min.io/product/overview
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Under review

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Flow widget to display total traffic with different visualizations

At the moment when using flow widget we can display total traffic with table visualization. If we change to for example line chart or bar chart we no longer have total traffic, only "remaining traffic". If you would like to have line chart of flow...
16 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Ability to sort/filter an entity/group's Automation Workflow 'result of policy' table by the value column

Today, if you navigate to a VM > Policies > Automation Workflow, you'll see "Attribute", "Value", and "Active Policy". You have to read through them row by row. If we're able to add the functionality to sort and filter the table, we can quic...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review