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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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Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
8 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Add a WYSIWYG or Rich Text HTML Editor to the HTML Component

Please add a WYSIWYG HTML editor to the HTML component. Currently, there is only the option to edit in raw html. If you add a reference to an editor like TinyMCE (https://www.tiny.cloud), it would enable us to edit the contents of an HTML componen...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Bill of IT Data Sharing to 3rd Party Apps like Microsoft Power-BI

As TBMA, I get several requests from our Business and Technology Stakeholders  who want an API access from Apptio Bill of IT to feed data to 3rd  party Applications like Power BI which their team manage and own to integrate reporting dat...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Planned for future release

Add priorityclassname to autotracewebhook helm chart

We have a highly dynamic environment and would like to ensure that cluster wide operators are available before customer workloads. The current helm chart for the autotracewebhook lacks the ability to set a priorityclassname in the deployment (http...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Send alert config id in alert notification

We are currently struggeling to correlate, which alert config has caused a notification being sent to our notification channel. It would be helpful to also receive a deep link to the alert config.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Add blacklisting functionality of certain events in the alert configuration.

We really like the possibility to be able to alert on event types. However sometimes, a particular event is not relevant for a specific team and we want to disable it. It would be much more easy in this case to disable certain events in the contex...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

new feature requests that are specific to BFD in NMS

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a fast fault detection mechanism based on RFC 5880. After a BFD session is established between two systems. We want to monitor the status of the bfd protocol configured on cisco devices through sevone. C...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Send a NodeClickedOn from JazzSM's WebWidget

having the capability of sending NodeclickedOn event from custom HTML and/or Netcool Impact operator views, extends the usability of both products. it increase the interactivity capabilities enormously.. as you can then have completely custom page...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration