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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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Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
14 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
14 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

In Turbonomic Segments view of Policies, allow sort/filter/group by Type (e.g. Host Merge, Storage Merge, Network Merge under Merges)

The one-layer depth to the Turbonomic Segments portion of policies makes for difficult searching and sorting. Adding additional filters at each of these pages would help reduce noise and improve ease of management. I have submitted similar ideas i...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Allow use of VLAN ID for network matching for segmentation

Today, to verify a VM can live on another vCenter, Turbonomic checks the port group name to ensure match and that the same network is available at the destination. This idea is to match on the VLAN ID instead of the port group name string.
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Enable a manual override to stop failing actions in the queue

Currently if there is an issue with permissions or a policy conflict, actions that were manually executed will continue to retry (appears to be indefinitely?) There should be a way to cancel that action so that the logs aren't filled with one-time...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
15 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Ability to get the volume of purchased licences through Instana API

Hello, Currently, I' m able to get the number of active apmhost and infrahost per day with the api endpoint : /api/instana/usage/hosts/{day}/{month}/{year} ############# Usage : https://xxxxxxxxxxx.instana.io ############# [{'time': 1724544000000,...
15 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
15 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
15 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted