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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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Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Workload Console 9.5 Audit Data

Dynamic Workload Console V9.5 has no audit tracking. Would like to see some type of log which tracks items like User Logon/off and user search and updates while in the tool.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

XML Gateway insert Support for details & journal table

XML Gateway (Message Bus gateway) isn't passing Inserts from the details or journal tables. A single Message Bus Gateway should be able to extract data from all the tables listed in the table replication file. Data should be output to handle the u...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Allow choose direction of action for Container Platform Plans

If you plan a Container Platform Cluster optimization, it only permit choose scale or not. If it's possible to pick just resize down container spec and/or resize up, users will know the difference between actions. This is aligned with: https://ide...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Variable drop down at the top of a report should be assignable to effect specific widgets or all but a specific widget on the report.

Functionality exists in competing product Grafana, which GTS is trying to migrate from to SevOne-Data Insight. Customer needs the variable drop downs on a report to effect all sections but then when a second variable drop down is selected that sec...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Support for string value collection and storage

Today, there are a handful of devices that expose data as stringtype, e.g. "up", "down", "active", "standby". Enhance SevOnes collection and storage engines to allow strings to be handled by the system.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Support configurable duration for DFA and RSD Slope-based Policy Conditions

The current fixed duration for DFA and RSD is too short to include Triggering on longer persistent behavior, like low Slope (e.g., flatlining when not at 0% or 100% utilization) Supporting up to the standard 2-hour duration setting would improve t...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Report "One-Shot" Mode.

Support a Report mode where each Section will populate once, and then not refresh when the user navigates between Sections, unless the user specifically requests a refresh, or edits the Report, requiring a refresh. The use case here is large Repor...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

DI Report Section Navigation - Manage when section count overflows the browser/screen width

To avoid splitting related content into additional Reports, a more intuitive way to visually support more Report Sections than fit in the browser width is needed. Current "scroll-wheel" functionality is not intuitive and not portable among differe...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration