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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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Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 4 Future consideration

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Cannot rename/label hosts

It is easy to segregate the servers
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

for a user to share a PLAN with another users, OR ...somehow make the PLAN accessible by other users.

for a user to share a PLAN with another users, OR ...somehow make the PLAN accessible by other users. If I create a PLAN on turbonomic, I would like some other users to be able to see/run that PLAN. Need a way to share a PLAN or to make certain PL...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 5 Future consideration

OMNIbis Probe for NNMi support of latest versions

The latest available version of Probe for NNMi (nco_p_hp_nnm) is 4.0, which supports NNMi 2019.11 as the latest version. The NNMi 2019.11 is very old and not supported on the RHEL 8.x. On the RHEL 8.x are supported following NNMi versions: 2020.0...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide a means of selecting all items on all pages

As a user, I would like the ability to select all items in a list/collection, so that I don't have to click 'show more' for each 20 items in each page to select all items on all pages.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Ability to Monitor Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway

Currently Instana cannot monitor Layer7
8 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Future consideration

Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support for containerized MDM and BKMDM on two different networks

Currently, creating two domain manager docker containers in one host machine, but on different docker networks, does not work. These DMs do not connect. Would like to have official support for having two containerized domain managers hosted on dif...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration