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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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Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
21 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Enhanced change log and version control system

Summary: Introduce a change log and version control system to track modifications made to business mappings, tags/labels, account group mappings, and views within the platform, allowing users to view, compare, and revert changes as needed. Use cas...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
17 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Smart Alerts Time Thresholds

Current Smart Alert Evaluation granularity scale is between 1 - 30 minutes.We would need alerts much sooner, 10 seconds would be ideal. Can this scale minimum be changed to less than 1 minute?
17 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Role Visibility By Product

Currently, when assigning a role in Frontdoor, it displays roles from all IBM products, which causes confusion during the assignment process. Ideally, if roles are assigned within Cloudability, it should only show the roles that have permissions f...
12 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Submitted

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

We have requirement to monitor the alerts for AS400 message queue based below scenarios: 1. If the message type is (DIAGNOSTIC/INQUIRY/INFORMATIONAL, etc.) and the severity is (>=, <=, or =).2. If the message type is (DIAGNOSTIC/INQUIRY/INFO...
12 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Improve the way Azure Disk recommendations are displayed in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing

When looking at Azure Disk recommendations in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing, the THROUGHPUT (MB/S) chart of the Recommendations page is confusing, as the units are actually in Mbps. Please remove the capitalisation so the units are unambiguo...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
12 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Needs more information

Improved functionality -Scheduling maintenance windows

The maintenance windows, but what happens when the window is active, is that the notifications are not sent through the alert channels that we have implemented, e.g.: no notification is sent through Teams or events to Service Now, however the even...
12 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted