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Tagging, Management Zone (GUI)

We need to tag service/host/anyCI and show them under logical grouping. Easy filtering with tagging
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Not under consideration

Baseline Anomaly - Failure Rate

There is no option of adoptive threshold for erroneous calls. Alternative %10 & %20 static threshold, too many alerts
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

• We can not create a custom event same same properties with built-in event.

Exp: CPU Steal Time exceeded – “Number of violations as a condition” property does not exist. we have to be able to recreate the builtin events so that we can create them using different threshoulds and such. some of the events does not meet our d...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Not under consideration

URL based parsing

We need to seperate URLs into logical service groups. Our monitoring capabilities are depending on this feature
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Not under consideration

Service naming feature

We need to adapt monitored service names with our CMDB. So, we need to re-naming auto detected service, host, process names. Difficult usage: SDK, environment variable definition no regex rules, no separete service type (custom service)
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Functionality already exists

exception ignore

We need to ignore some business exception and doesn’t mark as a fail and alert. because every operation has its own bussiness exceptions and sometime they can be ignored for a period of time.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Mailman Server to continue processing other servers after a failed server

Please refer to We have 20 servers under the control of a single Mailman server , Which processes the message queue. We had a failure on 1 server , which in turn caused ALL other server messages NOT to be processed. which eventually IWS believed t...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Improving Resiliency #4: avoid impacts to r3batch when SAP have enabled trace to BTCOPTIONS BATCHTRACE_MODULE / BAPI_XMI_LOGON

TWS was unable to establish a RFC connection with SAP and submit jobs when a trace was enabled to BTCOPTIONS BATCHTRACE_MODULE / BAPI_XMI_LOGON in SAP system. Through the logs, the error returned was limited to "EEWO0950W the RFC user is already l...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name. I
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration