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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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Confirmation Dialog Box Settings

We would like for there to be a confirmation dialog box upon clicking the 'Execute Action' button. We understand that there is by default, but it can disabled via user preference. We would prefer for Site Administrators to be able to configure the...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Eventviewer tool - access criteria "FilterName"

At the moment you can only control the access criteria of event viewer / event list tools by membership of user groups and the class of events (or fields value with a conversion in alerts.conversions and limited to = and != comparison operators). ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

param.FilterSQL / param.FilterName as available runtime parameter for SQL tools

In order to limit the action of a tool to the event shown in an event list / event viewer it would be great to have the filter name or even better the filter SQL as runtime parameter available for SQL tools ( and it would be nice to have it availa...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
11 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Additional ActiveMQ metrics

Additional ActiveMQ metrics (Memory Percent Usage, Store Usage, Health, Current Status, etc.)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Allow to use *AND and *OR in Omegamon situations with reflex action.

Having *AND and *OR in formula for situation with reflex action is currently not allowed. Lack of flexibility in the product means that whenever we want to test on the same type of event for example multiple queues, we will – due to the fact tha...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Find Topology resources following the arrow direction and render them on page

In topology view, client want to see an ability to view resource with all "child resources" following specific direction arrows. e.g. down arrow (has) and not up arrow (runsOn). Currently AIOps Topology has "Get Neighbours" option which shows all ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration