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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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improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
15 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Option to run a Multiple Action Runbook Manually with just one click instead of clicking on "run next" and "Run" Multiple Times

Currently while manually running the Runbook the end user/Operator/NOC has to fill in the required parameters for the run book to run and run each action manually. Let's say the Runbook has 10 Action steps, the user has to click on 20 buttons, 10 ...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Data Insight Performance Report - Allow Color Range for multiple columns

I have a report I created that shows HC In Octet, HC Out Octet, In Octet and Out Octet for a couple hundred interfaces. Right now I can select one column, and set a color for a specific value. I would expect to be able to select all of my columns ...
8 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Optimisations should report if changes are required before they can be executed

The latest example of this is the asV6 SKUs which have a dependency for the VM to be running the NVMe disk controller, yet the recommendation is being made for VMs wwith SCSI disk controllers. These optimisations then fail when customers try to ap...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted

Workload Automation: Add support for Amazon RDS for Db2

Please consider adding support for Amazon RDS for Db2. Some IBM Customers plan moving to AWS. If they are using Db2 in their on-premises system, they would like to continue using Db2 even after migrating to AWS. This also applies to IWS DB if they...
9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Change commitment portfolio to not show incomplete data

Savings Portfolio - daily savings and utilization graphs need to avoid using a red bar for the current day (early morning?). This seemed to me to be a warning to be researched, but instead it was just that the current day's data had not been fully...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Azure Utilization data

I suggest to make Azure Utilization data available in Apptio BI to build reports based on the data. And in addition to expose the data to the API.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted