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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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Pivot Compatibility with 3 modeled metrics stacked bar charting

In Apptio Cost Transparency reporting, when creating a stacked bar chart, we can configure three modeled metrics to stack on top of each other by placing a dimension in the "Columns" section and the modeled metrics in the "Values" section of the c...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Datalink Annual scheduler option

 There is a monthly, Day in Period, Weekly, Daily, and Custom range, but it would be really helpful if there was either an annual or if the day in period was customizable to day in fiscal year or calendar year.  For our use case I have t...
11 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

ASM to support for file checksum on SD bulk job from aaionap service

SD bulk sync API should support passing file checksum in header from aaionap ASM should validate that each bulk sync file received from SD matches the checksum Checksum should be optional in API header; if it exists, then perform check, otherwise not
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AWS Sagemaker needs Turbos support to manage efficiency and performance

Amazon SageMaker is a managed service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. It provides the tools to build, train and deploy machine learning (ML) models for predictive analytics applications . This can be very expensive - Turbo's help in...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration