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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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Option to Export as a .CSV out of TBM Studio

As an admin, I export data directly out of TBM Studio for our users to review and upload themselves into IT Planning. As the default file type when exporting out of TBM Studio is .xslx and the required file type to import into IT Planning is .csv,...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Planned for future release

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Column Order in Tables with Editable Table Step

The column ordering cannot be updated in tables with a transform step, such as an Editable Table step. The data in the final Table step is displayed with a different column order than the source editable table. ApptioOne should be updated to addre...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
9 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident?

Is it possible that you can add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident? I was performing an action 2 days ago on an AWS account and I clicked on ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

ITM for Omegamon (TEPS functionality) should support passphrases

ITM 6.3.0 FP7 SP2/SP5 does not support passphrases. Currently ITM limitations are as follows: 1) up to 50 characters 2) For Distributed system, the acceptable characters are as following - For tacmd login those characters are between the brackets ...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 9 Planned for future release