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DWC needs to show what sub-page is currently selected

Currently, if you open Monitor Workload and execute several queries, creating multiple sub-pages, there is no visual indication that shows what page is selected. It only highlights the top-level Monitor Workload page.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Record a ticket number for DWC plan actions like DB

Can you please add a feature to add an option in DWC to make DWC user to prompt for a ticket a mandatory field while taking any action in plan like rerun, submit, cancel etc. I see multiple users take wrong Plan actions in DWC, its better to recor...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to trigger an event rule using or. Job A abends OR Job B abends, trigger rule.

Currently we have to create 2 separate event rules to do this. If we are hoping for the exact same action based on 2 separate jobs' events, why not allow us to choose Job A OR Job B in the event?
7 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Allow Event rules to be exported and imported.

This would be great for DEV and PROD systems. If I add many event rules for testing on DEV it would be great to be able to export them and import them into the PROD server.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Functionality already exists

Backup resource advisor URL

We have automated the agent install process in our environment completely, but when ever we perform the Disaster Recovery Test and switch to Backup master, all the new agent installs needs o updated manually (JobManager.ini) with the Backup master...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists