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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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Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
14 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Smart Alert - grouping/summary/templates

A function of other APMs that I've used is the concepts of summaries and group alert copy or alert templates. Summaries - In cases, when memory, CPU and or filesystems alert they do so together which is a single event. With a summary structure, wh...
14 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
14 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
14 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
15 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Submitted

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
15 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

dns name configurable

Instana standard editon need DNS entries with subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing All entries points to the same ip. We want to have it configurable for free for example to remove the subdo...
15 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Configurable Sampling Rate and Ignoring Calls

Detail : We would like to configure the sampling rate of a process or a service in Instana. For example, there are 10 different call names for one process, but we just want to see 2 of them to be captured by our agent, so it means sampling rate of...
16 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted