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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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Custom GraphQL block for the OpsMill product

OpsMill is largely driven via GraphQL queries and while we have an OpsMill integration today it focuses on the REST API alone. Is it possible to create a customer OpsMill block which will take their GraphQL structure and return data? Some document...
5 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Dynamic maps constrained by device and object groups.

I'd like to be able to create a map, for example 'MPLS Core' and configure the map to show all 'ethernetcsmacd' links only between nodes in X,Y,Z device groups. or to specify only links in a given object group. I'd like the map to update dynamical...
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Cloudability should have unified approach to resolving tag conflicts for all cloud service providers

Currently Cloudability is treating empty tag values in Azure differently than in GCP as my organization is using multi cloud architecture, we would want to be able to apply same logic and expect same results for all the cloud providers that we use.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Reporting on App Service Environments in Azure.

CBA have a use case where many of their workloads are moving to ASE. We dont get much granularity from ASE in the cost reporting - however via the SPN we deploy we could possibly use that to gain better insights for ASE.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration