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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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Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
almost 9 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Prevent duplicate email notifications

Targetprocess configuration of notifications has many options but they tend to just result in duplicate emails being sent for the same event.  Two things would help with this:  1) Make sure a given event only sends one notification to a...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 0 Future consideration

Documentation around Openshift Operator management

Current Documentation does not cover managment of Subscriptions Install Plans Managing upgrades via Subscriptions and Managing the Operator deployment eg offline repo extra config eg CPU limits or custom build of operator to support hardend build.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Additional options for column colouring in Widgets

Currently in Data Insight when setting up Performance metrics, you can use custom color ranges to highlight different rows based on the values in 1 column, however when using multiple indicators there are times when multiple columns may be importa...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

Monitior Kafka Broker Certificate Validity

we are very happy with your Kafka Monitoring solution. There is one per broker metric which we believe is also worth monitoring. That is the validity of the SSL Certificate provided by the broker. If the certificates expire, the whole cluster stop...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Google Cloud Functions monitoring support

Hi, are there any plans for supporting monitoring on serverless platforms, particularly Google Cloud Functions or is there already a solution? Currently we are using Java Cloud Functions, but we also used Javascript based ones in the past. Third o...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting

We need the swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting. We are configuring custom events to trigger on swap memory. Currently, both the Memory > Swap Free and Memory > Swap Total metrics are measured in Bytes. They need to be a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

.NET Core and Framework Profiling on Windows

When developing software you sometimes run into memory leaks or high CPU that are difficult to explain. Profiling can help to identify the root cause so the issue can be solved. This feature already exist for Linux: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ins...
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Not under consideration

Icons on left go missing when GUI is in large font/size

When a new user logs into Turbo, their GUI by default shows the screen as fairly large and the icons on the black bar on the left of the GUI are not always present (first to go missing is Settings at the bottom). If you resize the screen to be sma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0