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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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Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
almost 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

Add metrics for AWS plugin

Disney is looking to collect additional metrics for their AWS monitoring.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 2 Future consideration

reduce false positives for used space on data_files for "IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for Microsoft® Applications" ITM6 agent

Add an attribute, for example 'maxsize unlimited', to attribute group 'MS SQL Database Detail' that would allow to trigger a situation only if the maxsize is not unlimited (cf with auto extend capability).
5 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

When an action execution is blocked by relative actions, user should be able to see the list of all those relative actions (possibly as a dependency chain)

When the action execution is blocked by relative actions, i.e with status "Action execution is blocked by related actions on this entity or destination entity." , as a user I don't have an easy way to find out which other actions are causing the b...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Put a configurable cap on concurrent automated actions for the cloud provider to help with throttling.

The client is experiencing AWS throttling for EC2 Scaling Actions. 1000 actions can happen at the same time but can fail mid action due to AWS Throttling. . There is a setting called " properties: action-orchestrator: actionExecution.concurrentAut...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

KubeTurbo helm chart - enable a toleration

Hello, I have an enhancement request for the KubeTurbo helm chart, which is here: https://github.com/turbonomic/kubeturbo/tree/master/deploy/kubeturbo-operator/helm-charts/kubeturbo The ask is to please add the ability to include a toleration in t...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Make Userid visible in "Top Processes" at the Host Dashboard or make it selectable/visible in Custom Dashbords for processes

Customer wants to see the running Userid of DB2 Instances. Actually it is hard to find out under which user the db2sysc Instances are running. You have to select all Processes and open the Process Dashboard. Customer need this information to easie...
5 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration