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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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Create baselines based of netflow data

The specific ask from the customer is the ability to learn normal behaviour (and alert when there is an anomaly) of the IP flows going through the network (source IP, dest IP and application). This is a specific use case, but it would be great if ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 0 Future consideration

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

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM The subject of the development request concerns the detection of loops on the current plan of IWS MDM Linux in the Forcast process and the blocking of the calculation of the curr...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Get metrics from Instana to use in Argo Rollouts

As is known, Argo is currently the top opensource tool to make deployments. Argo Rollouts extends the capability of ArgoCD and provided features as blue/green deployment or canary deployments. As you might know Canary deployments work in the follo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Total Cost Default Calendar Settings

In order to view the last full month of cloud activity,  we would like to set the default month to last month not current month.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Improvement of status of file-observer

When the file-observer has the state "finished", there are still some jobs in the background, i.e. indexing in Elasticsearch. The state in the overview of topology-management is irritating, as the user might still see some undefined resources in ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Needs more information

Cloudability | Optimize -> Rightsizing -> Filters -> Status

Under Optimize - > Rightsizing menu under Azure there are resources displayed which has tickets created and tickets are in Done state. Would be great to have opportunity to filter out (exclude alll Done tickets) tickets with status "Done". That...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Ability for customer to disable prod for end users

In TBM studio we would like to see a button available to the admin role to disable production from end users and have a message display "Maintenance/Outage" something like that. The use case is in the scenario where we accidentally promoted incorr...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted