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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Creation of a transport module for message bus probe to support GCP pub/sub topic

Require a tool in the Netcool Omnibnus toolbox that can connect to a Google Cloud pub/sub topic to pull events from Google Monitoring that are written to the Pub/Sub topic as a Google Cloud Monitoring Notification Channel. Internal network securit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

TADDM doesn't support SQL Server 2017 Discovery

This RFE is about the case "TS001448241", the field "PMR ID" TADDM doesn't Support Discovery on SQLserver 2017
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Jobstream should go in ABEND status if one job in the stream is in error

A jobstream should go in ABEND status if one job in the stream is in error even if other jobs in the stream are in EXEC status.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add more than one prefix in monitor job and monitor jobstreams

We like to be able to add more than one prefix in the 'Task Name' field when creating a new job or job stream monitor.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

To exclude resources from processes Dynatrace API to reduce the observer load time and the volume of the data gathered

The idea is to configure the Dynatrace observer scope by resources categories (applications, hosts, processes, services) so that it is possible to choose only some of these categories. The filter should enable the user to choose subcategories, i.e...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists