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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 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

Implement support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer.

Implementing support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer is useful because it will extend the functionality of the system, allowing integration with additional services that are not currently supported. This will benefit developers...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

SQL Server Target Enhancement

Hi Team, Currently we can add only one port for SQL server Database targets but if there are multiple SQL server instances with different ports then we need to add multiple targets so I would suggest there should be option to add multiple ports in...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Would like to go with Agentless setup for SAP S/4 on Azure Cloud.

No binary files need to be installed for Dynamic Agent on Cloud VM
5 months ago in Workload Automation 4 Needs more information

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 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

Allow HTTP actions to be created with insecure API endpoint

When creating a HTTP action, if you enter a API endpoint that beings with just http, not https, you get the following error message: "This field must be a valid https URL or start with a parameter of type 'string'. Either allow http endpoints (ver...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Jobtype Job Stream Submission flag optional

Verify the possibility of Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Job type Job Stream Submission flag optional. We currently have customers using version 9.4 and have set this option which is default when creating new jobs. From version 10...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana grouping in Analyze Calls for Smart Alert Event by blueprint template

If you jump from smart alert event to analytc by clicking on "Analyze Calls" the predefined grouping seems to be defaulted to 'by endpoint'.It would help a lot if grouping would be done by templated blueprint criteria.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Not under consideration

Data Insight needs added functionality so that when a widget is taking and excessively long time to load and thus delaying the rest of the report to complete, the UI should present function to the user to halt that specific widget

User notes this function already exists in Grafana, added function would all Customer to determine problems with Report loading when they are building reports. Issue manifest most notably when building reports in their staging environment are move...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration