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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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Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Planned for future release

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Datalink Connector List Export

The current connector list in DataLink only offers limited information. In order to see what tables connectors load into, source and destination time periods, and other details, you need to click into each connector. Attached is a mockup showing t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Flutter Multiple Backend Configuration

Currently, Instana flutter agent (and mobile app in general) only support sending monitoring data to a single backend. For customer with high availability active-active setup, sending data to 1 backend will definitely impact the data availability....
6 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Corporate Font addtion to Studio

We have been following an ideation of having the option to have Corporate Colours added to Studio for reporting and have heard this has been built and will be in an upgrade soon. Would it also be possible to have Corporate Fonts added as an option...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Clone OCP and NOI configurations from an existing system to a newly created system

The customer has one OCP that runs NOI test and NOI prod as a full cloud installation. The problem with this setup is that sometimes operations are used on one NOI, that also affect the other NOI instance on the same OCP. To avoid such dependencie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Automate the currency change (probe property) fetched from the Azure price sheet

Hi team, My customer would like to change the currency that is fetched from the Azure price sheet. They are using Turbo SaaS, and now it's required to do it manually through a request.Now, Turbo UI is confuse, since lets you to change the currency...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration