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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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Ability to set utilization and other constraints on group or cluster level

IBM Turbonomic is currently importing admission control settings which are part on a VMware HA policy as utilization constraint affecting all host in a cluster individually. For a stretched cluster this means that a 50% maximum utilization constra...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Planned for future release

Policy Historical Helper: In the policy editor, add a feature that will help determine if the policy has the correct settings by using historical data.

It would help admins determine if the new policy or policy changes will catch the expected events. Otherwise, users would have to wait for future events to see if the policy had the desired results. In a separate tab in the Policy Editor, display ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Instana email notification does not include status and other important fields for alert condition

Client has reported that the email content does not include alert payload e.g. threshold, metric, status. Lack of status field does not let client effectively use email notifications for additional processing of the event. Request is to add all al...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Website application monitoring "in-flight request"

Hi. We are using website monitoring feature but we noticed that request that has been started but not yet completed, a.k.a. a request in progress are not traced/visible. Is there any option to see those in-flight requests or if not could be this f...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Increase size of summarization and pruning agent tables columns

There is an a discrepancy between the columns lengths in CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis and CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis_(H,D,W,M,Y). All time related decimal columns in S&P columns are defined as DEC (31,2) and do not match with CICSplex_...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

How can know the Consumers counts for which queue in Instana, We can only see the total here

I WANT TO want to know for each queue how many consumer there are. the count number are the total number for each queue there in instana. we can see the queue list below in instana,but I want to know how many number count for each queue have(we ca...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana tracing support for monitoring Dynamics AX 2012 ERP

Performance monitor our Dynamics AX 2012 R3 solution, which are our ERP system, and primary data accumulator. We want a special focus on SQL performance. The software running our Dynamics AX solutions is: Dynamics AX AOS server (.net application),...
7 months ago in Instana / .NET / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Locate Dependency Loops in DWC(Show Plan View)

This makes Dependency Loops graphically visible in the Show Plan View option
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Alerts for required time only.

We have some application running in Day time and 5 days a week and don't want to monitor alerts after hour. If we can add time frame while creating alert that will give the user to ability to set alerts for specific time.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration