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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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Allow stream name alias on event rule

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

IWS agents to be cluster aware

IWS agents are not cluster aware and as such are not supported in environments that are clustered and as such not supported. We are running FTA agents on RHEL pacemaker clusters using nfs but are also assessing other remote file system solutions e...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Information on jobs waiting on parallel server limits

Would like a report of jobs waiting on workstation parallel servers and how long they were waiting before starting. This would facilitate analysis of jobstream delays and identifying bottlenecks in the nightly batch.
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Make the magnifier icon mean zoom

In any graph with a time axis, if you select a time range on the graph, there is a magnifier button which sends you to analytics and a ... menu with a clock button which zooms to the time range. I suggest you change this to have the magnifier icon...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Allow the user to select the language on DWC

We usually set our browsers to use Portuguese language, but for DWC, and other specialist IT tools, we prefer to use the English language. Until version 9.4 it was possible to set the "Default Locale" on "Console Properties" screen to "en", so DWC...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to mask GET values based on value of other parameter in websites

We would like to extend the functionality of GET url parameter masking. Currently, it is possible to specify directly name of the key, whose value will be masked. i.e. "/mykey/i" for url /?mykey=XXX will change to /?mykey=<redacted>. However...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

The ability to display reserved space in the Turbonomic UI for initial placement.

There are multiple accounts which I work with which utilize Turbonomic for initial placement of VMs on hosts within their clusters. When these reservations are placed, there is currently no method in the Turbo UI to show the amount of space which ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

User option to cleanup old images following the upgrade process.

When performing an upgrade of Turbonomic the old images are just left in the /var directory. Nexttime when a user goes to upgrade and they run the upgrade-precheck.sh script, the /var directory is often over the 70% limit and the user must manuall...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

zCentric Agent Installation as root

We are trying to remove reliance on root to install our TWS agent. However, after installation, there is the error - the userid used to install TWS can't impersonate to the proid which we used to run the job. We are attempting to mitigate root acc...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration