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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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Mesaage bus probe support Authetication other than basic

Message bus should support other authentcation like okta other than just basic authentication . We currently have message bus probe to which external system posts alarm to it via webhook . However the message bus probe only accepts basic authetica...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Custom role/ permissions in IT Planning

Use case I have noticed that one permission “CustomizeLayouts” where User can customize layouts in AgilePlanning. Do we also have this permission in IT Planning?     In IT Planning I need to create e a role where user can only ...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Raw Netflow reporting scalability improvements

My customer experienced a reporting limitation when attempting to view raw Netflow data for a FlowPro Device (over any timespan).
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

The ability to choose "unlimited"/"all" result limit when viewing a Netflow report

Currently in SevOne Data Insight, there is a 10,000 result limit for viewing traffic details in Netflow reports.
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 0 Future consideration

The job description cannot be displayed in the job flow view.

My client wants to see the job description in the job flow view.The job description is not be displayed, but the user wants to see it in the view.Since the description contains useful information which is the user want to see in the job steam flow.
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Future consideration

Additional options for column colouring in Widgets

Currently in Data Insight when setting up Performance metrics, you can use custom color ranges to highlight different rows based on the values in 1 column, however when using multiple indicators there are times when multiple columns may be importa...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration