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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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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.
about 8 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.
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Would like to have VMWare vCPU Shares (low, normal, high) as an attributes for filtering

To filtered down to VMs that has a certain vCPU shares settings. e.g. If all SQL VM should have "High" shares, we can quickly find if there is any SQL VM that has been misconfigured to have "low" or "normal" shares.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Ability Change the Timezone for the Event Viewer

Hello Team, We have a Global Networking Team that are looking at the events in the Eventviewer but they are being displayed in their local time. We have check the Node timezones and all are being set to UTC by default and We are assuming it is tak...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON Data Provider support

We are in the middle of a project to rebuild our event management solution. The target architecture should be based on Watson AIOPs and the OMEGAMON Data Provider will deliver data to the Watson AIOps Metric Manager. For this we need the OMEGAMON ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

NodeJS npm @instana/collector – deno support

Currently, there isn't native support for the @instana/collector package in Deno, as Deno handles npm packages differently than Node.js, particularly when it comes to lifecycle scripts like the ones required by the @instana/collector. These script...
9 months ago in Instana / Node 1 Future consideration