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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 dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Provide switch on Event Viewer to make that instance read-only

Currently a Page loads a map in top half and EV in bottom.Icons on map do one of 3 things1)Update the EV on bottom.2)Open EV in new window3)Open LEL (or replacement) in new window. This is the RO view of "other"alarms Requirement : It Is Item 3 - ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

TADDM scan support for cygwin 3.4.9

As we tested, for now TADDM is supporting scan of hosts with cygwin only to version 3.0.7. But there is a security issue with this version, and the customer's administrator needs to use cygwin newer versions, for example 3.4.7 or 3.4.9. I think th...
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to change policies on Databricks clusters: autoscale;autopause

Some users do not enable autopause and autoscale in their databricks environments. Although it is very hard to use Turbo's capabilities to resize databricks VMs as they spin up and down so often, it would be very helpful to change cluster policies...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Maintenance Dashboard needs Enhancement

Currently the Maintenance Dashboard has the option of creating a Maintenance Schedule for suppressing the alert but as per our audit requirements we need to have the informations about 1. Who created the schedule? 2. Why was this schedule created?...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Jobstream description in DWC

Hi It will nice to add description of Jobstream into the planning of DWC for IWS distributed. This is a funtion we have in IWS for z/OS
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release