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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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Increase number of Stati in table view

In the table widget of DASH we can specify 4 differene conditions which leads to five different stati. As we have the requirement to show more icons we would like to increase the limit. It should be an easy change to allow more than 5 stati.
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Please update SevOne to support monitoring of the most recent Java releases

Update the SevOne JMX monitoring capability to support updated versions of JAVA. When developers build poor JAVA code it will chew through resources assigned to the JVM until such a point until it crashes and goes into garbage collection. Where co...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable)

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable). for example : https://my.domain/accounts/324345/status want to mask the path variable - 324345
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Integration DPOD - Instana

DPOD allows to see in depth what happens with the transactions on the datapower, instana does not have this functionality and it would be complementary to have this information at the application level, trying to have a complete end-to-end view.
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Update kubernetes certificate when an instance is upgraded (OVA only issue)

I recently had an issue with a large financial customer where I made a license change and it caused the instance to show that none of the targets were validated any longer. After some troubleshooting, I found a certificate had expired. We worked w...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Not under consideration

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Instana supporting instrumentation of lambda functions using Terraform

As of now, Instana is not supporting AWS lambda functions using Terraform. Few teams in our agency using AWS lambda functions using Terraform and we need Instana instrumentation on these nodes.
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Need Security in the TEPS to work in the same way that it does from the 3270 enhanced

Hello, We need to have commands (should be covered by takeaction security elements) that need to get executed under the ID of the person logged on (the resolved ID if using user mapping). However, we then need situations to be executed under the t...
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration