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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 MessageLevel logging for http interface separated from setting for the ObjectServer.

To increase logging for curl command control (making a POST request with a JSON body) sent. Now we have only messages about clients connected.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba - No Filtration properties available on subscribing to Event Notifiation

Probe - nco_p_huawei_u2000_corbaUnlike other CORBA probes where we have the option of filtering the alarms while subscribing to the real time alarms/Notification IRP services. nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba doesn't provide any options/properties to subs...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 11

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

DI Schedule/Deliver a Report to Multiple Recipients With Distinct Variable Settings

Data Insight is designed to promote reusability of Reports using Variables to configure a standard Report based on the Consumers' needs, but Reports cannot be reused if different Schedule/Recipients need different Variable settings to make the Rep...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Data Insight Variables - Wildcard Search

DI Report consumers would save time and effort when navigating a complex dropdown list in a Variable. Today, we can do simple text match searches, but if there are many matches, we still end up scrolling a searching by eye. Providing a wildcard se...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

NOI Grouped Parent Alarm is not considering MIN FO Alarm Values

We found that the NOI Grouped Parent alarm is not considering the Minimum FO Child Alarm values to populate in the parent alarm fields As per cea_process_ckeyparents procedure , this should be the precedence -- IN CASE MULTIPLE CustomText PROPAGAT...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review