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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 insert limit in Park override

Today if a user override a parket VM, they can choose between a end date or a number of hours. But someone with bad intentions can override for 1 year or 999 hours for instance. The admin should have a way to put limit on each override, like 2 hou...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

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.
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

It's better to have the percent memory utilized for a process (e.g., Integration Server process in IBM ACE)

We want to capture the percentage memory utilized for any integration server process. This will help in identifying the max. memory used process so that support team can take appropriate action on that process.
7 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Support of DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9

We need to install DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9, as per contractual obligations with our customer and because this version introduces some security fixes. TADDM version 7.3.0.11 is currently supporting DB2 v11.5.8; can you please evaluate to certify this ...

ADD HISTORICAL TAB IN GLOBAL SDWAN HEALTH SUMMARY REPORT -> PPM ALERTS HISTORY

VERIZON is currently rolling out a new service called SD-WAN Threshold-PPM (Proactive Performance Monitoring). While working with the beta customers ST MICRO and FIDELITY TIER 0 we saw the requirement for a tab that shows us historical PPM data. I...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

verify IIS credential on agent setup or show missing credential in agent log

When Installing and running agent on a Windows host hosting IIS, the agent seems read the content of the application pool and site with the local admin right.if local admin rights is removed from the user that run the app pool Instana wont be able...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration