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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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AzureApp service

As we could see, your Azure App Services are discovered and we are able to see the metrics. You were missing the tracing so we did the troubleshooting for that. We could see that our InstanaProfiler is in place and after checking the logs, there a...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Is a defect

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4

IBM JVM Profiler Support

Currently IBM JVM Profiler is not supported https://www.instana.com/supported-technologies/java-profiling/ and it makes application servers hosted on AIX websphere impossible to profile and this is needed feature to optimize java applications
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 5

Netcool Impact - Policy activator to have a scheduled time window, such that policy always runs at a scheduled time.

example: case: 1 I want to activate my policy using policy activator at 8PM IST every day , but if any issues noi-nciserver-0 pod get restarted at 6PM IST and it got up at 6:05PM IST, then policy activator will activate my policy at 6:05PM IST rig...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Cancelation of WebSphere batch job (wsgrid.bat) on Windows should invoke shutdown hook i java

Cancelling a WebSphere Batch job on Windows, a java.exe process started from the wsgrid.bat only kills the java process. The shutdown hook in java is not called and the job/step i the websphere bacth container is not interrupted/stopped. This is "...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Event Manager - Have the ability to update 'Senders' name in communications

Hi, As per support ticket TS003773566, we are experiencing a low response rate from potential candidates after they receive the communication (an email) from Event manager inviting them for an interview. The sender's name is 'SystemIntegration'. T...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Will it be helpful if can create instana filter based on OrgID , eventid etc to get TPS for merchant specific

Get the event transaction detail per second for merchant wise
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Enable Smart Alerts for Traces

This would be useful because there are certain scenarios where certain types of data can only be categorized by filters by trace level instead of call level. Currently alerts and smart alerts can only be setup to filter by calls and not trace leve...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

Tool for use in converting of .txt file based scheduling object definitions to .json as payload in the REST requests.

Currently using TWS version and are leveraging TWS REST API to create a robust CI, CD workflow to deploy objects like JOBS, SCHEDULES, RESOURCES to TWS servers. At this point all the TWS objects definitions available in a .txt file using syntax me...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Interface details needs to be displayed in Topology

Hello Team, We have the ITNM that is On-Prem and is running the Discovery. We also have an ASM cluster that is in the cloud and has the ITNM_Observer enabled to load the topology from On-Prem ITNM server. One of the requirement from our customer i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration