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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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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...
8 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...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 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),...
8 months ago in Instana / .NET / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Correlate events with a change (recorded in SNOW, Remedy) OOTB

US FSM customers are requesting the ability to ingest change data and correlate events in Netcool / CP4WAIOps to that change. There are a variety of ways to represent this in our tools, but BofA / Morgan Stanley in particular are looking for a sta...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Request to be able to get a list of all currently active users in WebGUI from CLI

From CLI to be able to generate a list of all the active users currently in WebGUI. A list of all currently active users would be added to a log when run or when scheduled. Allowing the Admins to see and log who was online and when.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Run cycle based on month

Hi In TWS z/OS we can define run cycle based on Monthname ( January .... ) It's not possible on TWSD Best regards
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

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