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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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Support PagerDuty PD-CEF (Severity)

Currently when instana sends even details to PD, it lacks critical information like severity and uses a non-standard format. Ideally Instana alerts to PD conform to https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/pd-cef and include severity.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Version Tagging for agent and sensor

We want to have a version tag on the agent as well as for the sensors. At the moment agents have the version latest or a uuis. Also there is the boot version what does not have any functionality.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Improve CNEA Policy UI

the current version of policy UI does not allow to administer policies properly. there is no search, no chance to get an overview, etc. If the system detects a lot of policies, (> 1000) which is most time the case, the UI becomes unusable
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Technical Administrator User Type

It would be helpful if there could be a Technical Administrator user type/role that has most of the admin permissions but can be blocked from viewing entities in specific portfolios or processes for HR/Management use.
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Provide a "performance per watt" metric for environments

The idea of a "performance per watt" metric for hardware environments - particularly x86 platform - would be a good way of distinguishing between server types at a fundamental sustainability level. I suspect the metrics needed for this are already...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 2 Future consideration

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration