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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 for databricks on AWS EKS

Databricks monitoring is supported in Azure and we need support for this on AWS EKS.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
15 days ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2 Submitted

AIOps Topology template to filter on elements' alert status

When creating dynamic templates, we sometimes run into issue that the resulting resource groups are quite huge (1000+ elements). From an operator's perspective, the focus is usually on resources having issues (alerts). We'd therefore like to have ...
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
9 days ago in Instana / Java 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
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
3 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Object Groups in the Metadata widget: Allow the source group to be a Class. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the object groups within the selected Class.

It would allow the widget to display object groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
23 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Supported observer for ingesting Forward Networks topology

We have several customers asking for the ability to leverage Forward Networks topology data in Cloud Pak for AIOps. Forward Networks is their main source of truth used for network discovery and network management, and we should be able to incorpor...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review