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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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Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Changes in roles and permissions model: make them more granular for different actions

Specific more narrow cases: Guest users with limited permissions: ID:145662 Permissions to change workflow states: ID:217178 Permissions to prioritize items: ID:62057 Permissions to view, edit fields: ID:145404 -----   Introduce gro...
about 10 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Adding Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor.

Please add Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor for on-premises environments. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Exclusion List for Reports/Views

Please add the ability to control Report/View access by excluding specific teams/portfolios instead of including specific teams/portfolios.   Example: Make a view public but hidden from one particular entity either team and/or portfolio. &...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Adding additional filter to Analytics Infrastructure view

We have two cassandra clusters with the same name (apm_cassandra) but in different openshift clusters. Because the cluster name is the same, I'm unable to filter out the specific one I'm interested in under Analyze Infrastructure -> Cassandra C...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Kubernetes 2 Under review

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Cloudability for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

SAP Business Technology Platform is an innovation platform optimised for SAP applications in the cloud and a PaaS cloud computing service offered by SAP.More than 16,000 cloud customers are using BTP, and due to the Transformation to S/4HANA, more...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

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