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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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Updates on the WMI Plugin

The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point. Additionally managing the mapping of devices to WMI Proxies is a nightmare, as it can only be done through the API. Additionally, WMI Proxies are set on a per device basis. Ideally I'd like the abili...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Alerts on Apdex/SLA/SLI/SLO

Currently the data is only visible on custom dashboards It would be nice to have the option to alert on this, and also have those more prominent in the Application Perspective Overview.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Future consideration

Instana API: Inclusion of Synthetic Trace Calls in Instana API Query for Analyze Trace

Dear IBM Instana Team, Our team frequently utilizes the Instana API to retrieve in-depth alarming details by closely scrutinizing trace details. This has significantly aided our performance analysis and error identification efforts. However, we ha...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Custom MessageKey value for XMLGateway and Kafka

nco_g_xml_11 allow using only @ServerSerial or @ServerName as value for ate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property. We need to use at leas the combination of the both fields (for example: @ServerName+to_char(@ServerSerial)) or any other field from Objects...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Turbo should not recommend Disk Size changes for Azure HyperScale DBs - they autoscale.

bad actions reduce faith in the product and waste time. This is distracting the customer for really good actions - like HyperScale scaling.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Support for newest version of NGINX (Nginx Plus v29)

Customer according to security reason made the upgrade to newest NGINX. Bacause libraries for version v29 are not availabe they have lost some monitoring abilities for critical systems. We need support for v29 version ASAP.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

TADDM doesn't support SQL Server 2017 Discovery

This RFE is about the case "TS001448241", the field "PMR ID" TADDM doesn't Support Discovery on SQLserver 2017
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

changePassword required for IWS 9.5

In earlier version of IWS/TWS the product supplied a changePassword.sh script that could be used to change the password of the users and made all of the necessary changes to WebSphere etc. In 9.5 it seems a step backwards that this now has to be p...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

To add custom time range in a 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
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration