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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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Memory Leak Reboot Task - Schedule Control

Hi Folks, I was told in response to a support case that I should raise this issue as a possible improvement. This would be to allow control of the scheduling of the Memory Leak Reboot Task as there appears to be no way to control when this task is...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Support for RDQM DR scenario

Dear Colleagues, following the documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#replicated-data-queue-manager-rdqm-support we support RDQM HA scenario only, but we have an engagement with lar...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1

Need to Generate report in CSV format through the report scheduling feature.

Need to Generate report in CSV format through the report scheduling feature. Currently, receiving reports in PDF format and cannot find an option for CSV.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Additional recommendations for GCP and AWS

GCP: Buckets / CloudSQL / BigQuery AWS: Unassociated Elastic IP / LB / PaaS services / Lambda Some recommendations do not take into account all the characteristics of the instance: e.g. T4g (ARM) on AWS without taking into account the specific OS.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

Impossibility to use business mapping in certain functionalities

Impossibility to use business mapping in certain functionalities Anomaly Detection RightSizing GCP Scorecard GCP Containers OR Limitation on view filters Each user has to create his own alerts. There is no possibility to create default alerts. Nee...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information

It would be extremely valuable if Agile Release Trains has an IsActive attribute just like Teams have an IsActive attribute

Agile Release Trains are not permanent, just like Teams are not permanent. Currently Targetprocess allows setting a team to Inactive, which hides it from views and does other things one would expect from an inactive team. However, there is not an ...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts (Latest feedback from https://automati...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Needs more information

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

VMware CPU&Memory Limit value adjusting for optimization

Recently, Turbonomic supported to configure hot-add parameter on VMware VM configuration. Customer hope to do configuration also CPU&Memory Limit value by Turbononmic for optimization in the case Limit value configured on VMware VM (vCenter's ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Functionality already exists