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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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Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
5 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Needs more information

Flow Rules and ability to block unknown

I would like a way to block all "unknown" flows from all flow collectors such that I do not process flows I do not want to have in my system. These unknown sources eat resources on collectors and I would rather an a "deny ip any any unknown" type ...
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Include Events and Status data in Apptio BI

Current the Events and Status features do not allow you to easily find the data without exporting to excel and this data is not available in BI. It would be good to add features like group and filter to these reports but also to use in the BI reports
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

Add Object Summary widget to DI that automatically shows all indicator values on separate charts for the selected object.

Makes it easier to see all related indicators and their values at a glance vs. having to manually select each one. Similar to SevOne SURF object summary functionality.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Needs more information

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
19 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Needs more information

Providing limited access of Targetprocess to our Clients (External Users)

BMM needs to provide login access to our external users/clients so they can view Bugs/DIRTS, change statuses, and add/view attachments without compromising other clients' data. Each client should only be able to view and edit information assigned ...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Needs more information

Project field to be mandatory for all tabs

Currently, the project field is only mandatory for the labor activity tab but would like to make this mandatory for all tabs.
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
6 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 6 Needs more information