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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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Want to see if it might be possible to do "forcive"/"planning" sizing

Would like to see if there might be a way to force sizing actions when needed . Have several situations where we want to do **non-usage based sizing** what I call = "planning sizing" . Use cases are - where app owners have done load testing and kn...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Future consideration

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Support for .Net from datadog

Ability to have application context for .Net applications
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Allow Custom SQL in TEP/TEMS accept SUBSTR, COUNT(*) and GROUP BY SQL functions

The purpose of this idea is to allow TEP/TEMS run queries that summarize the DB2 z/OS thread status by using only the first 4 characteres of the package name. These first 4 characters indicate the application name the package belongs to, so this w...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 4 Not under consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Under review