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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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Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Provision to export the topology Data into Excel from Topology Viewer page.

Topology Viewer ASM page has options to export the topology to PNG, SVG Format. Need an option to export the topology to Excel.
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Discover Azure Storage Account Soft Delete Capacities

Discovery Azure Storage accounts and their respective soft delete capacities. Based on the soft deleted capacities calculate size of soft deleted blobs providing the ability to save consumption costs for Azure Storage that is not easily visible to...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Enhance the storage Limit of 64 kb for the alerts.status

After including analytics and runbook automation the amount of storage increase in the alerts.staus. We will change to Watson AIOps, but this is not possible the IBM internal fields use the bigest part of the hard limit of 64kB of the alerts.statu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Be able to change work station type

To simplify transition for objects defined on extended agent to dynamic pool agent. To be able to change workstation type from extended agent to dynamic pool on the go for migrations purposes.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Related Events: Do not suggest new groups covered by a deployed pattern

When new groups are discovered that match an existing pattern, they are not assigned to the existing pattern. This forces the users to move the pattern to new and then to deploy it again, so that new groups are assigned to the exsting pattern. The...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration