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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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ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Future consideration

GlassBox integration to see the Instana backend tracing correlated to the end user sessions recorded by GlassBox.

The customer want to understand better the beckend behavious starting from the GlassBox recorded sessions.
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Alert and Incident query API to enable filtering in alignment with the User Interface

Enhance the existing Alert and Incident retrieval APIs to include additional filtering conditions Enable the API to query alerts and Incidents using the same set of filters as available in the UI. Get the count of alarms The current API has the fo...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

SNMP Polling inside unique contexts should be fixed. Never worked despite having some functionality already built in. Very important to us to monitor BGP Peers in unique contexts.

Routing tables are segregated based on VRF. Sevone NMS only able to see BGP Peering in Default VRF/ Default CONTEXT. This means we are unable to see bgp peers drop to remote networks. This has vast consequences for us. This is no good! Please refe...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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

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 ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Map Visualization for reporting

Workforce accounts for a majority of spend and being able to view it in a map view to understand footprint and cost per area would be very helpful. View attached image for a reference. Would like granularity not just based on country but by states...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add datacenter, target, and storage cluster to Delete action export

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the vCenter datacenter, Turbonomic target name (vCenter name),and vCenter storage cluster name added to the the action center export for Delete actions, so that I can better understand where I am reclaiming sto...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

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