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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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Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Create API to purge data for a given agent/host

The agent on our Instana backend host got switched from Infrastructure mode to APM mode and cause the system to consume more than 100 GB of data over the course of just a few days. We switched it back off, but now we are stuck with all this data w...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Is a defect

CPU Socket adjustment.

client: " I’d like to have Turbo always set the number of CPU sockets to 2, and to adjust the cores per socket # to modify the # of vCPUs when RightSizing. Currently this is accomplished with a custom script. I would like this configurable on at t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Functionality already exists

SQL Target Enhancement

Client would like the SQL targets to be enhanced so that they can configure them with multiple ports and potentially multiple credentials.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Provide a means of selecting all items on all pages

As a user, I would like the ability to select all items in a list/collection, so that I don't have to click 'show more' for each 20 items in each page to select all items on all pages.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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