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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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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...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
15 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Retrieve multiple alerts AlertID values stored in a single variable when executing a right click tool

In the alert view, it is possible to select multiple alerts and execute a Right-Click tool. The expected result is that the tool returns the AlertID for all selected alerts, however it only returns one. This behaviour can be used in many scenarios...
22 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
22 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Submitted

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
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

Add sorting options on DI widgets

For UI/UX matters, it would be very useful to be able to save widgets/views in either ascending or descending values, or by certain attributes, but the option is not available. Sorting and saving the report doesn't actually saves it organized as d...
16 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration