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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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Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
6 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

ApptioBI calculated total field no longer working

Related to case TS017808747. The "AWS Services Count" widget in a "FinOps Dashboard" is no longer totaling the count of each service.In Oct the total count was 49 but in Nov it was showing as 1.The widget is using a calculated field "Cost Total /"...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

I want to prevent the file /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/* that TEPS starting command creates.

When /opt/IBM/ITM/lx8266/iw/java/jre/bin/java is executed (when TEPS starts up), some files '/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/*' will be generated. I would like to prevent these files from being generated. The related IBM support inquiry is this one: ht...
6 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

SecureClient available for Self-managed Turbonomic.

The customer would like to set up a Self-managed Turbonomic instance in thier own data center, and they want it to manage vCenters located in other remote data centers as well. However, switching between multiple Turbonomic instances would be inco...

Categorization option for Filter Values

This idea is based on the case TS018542103. Categorizing in the custom quick filter is currently not possible as each and every custom entity is a unique entity itself. It would be great to be able to also have the option to cluster the values in ...
16 days ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Submitted

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

See which notification box was checked when comment was created

When adding a comment there are checkboxes to notify creator/assigned people. The customer would like to see which option was checked when creating a comment in the history.
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Assign a view to a Frontdoor Role

In Cloudability, when editing a View to assign to users, the customer wants to have the option to assign the View to a Frontdoor Role as well. As for now, only individual users can be assigned to Views.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Cloud Repatriation Scenario - Migrating from Public Cloud to On-Prem

Customers are looking for solutions to move away their workloads from Public Cloud to On-Prem due to lock-in and cost related issues. There are no ready to use tools available to do this assessment, hence most of the time it is manual and based on...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Submitted

Smart alerts - ability to select any created application

Hi, It would be useful to allow selecting any created application perspective in smart alerts. Currently you can only select application perspectives which had calls (excluding synthetic calls) in last 24h. This is very inpractical if you want to ...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted