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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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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

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

To be able to change Scaling Target VMEM Utilization for On-Premises

Currently, almost all of my SQL Servers are considered to not have enough memory according to Turbonomic as it appears to want 70% free memory. This was told to me by support. This threshold is way above what VMware and Microsoft consider to be be...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Webmethods 5.1 support

Our customer ISBANK wants to have webmethods 5.1 to be supported.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Method for dealing with Webhook Calls to Endpoints that are Throttled (HTTP 429)

When using webhooks from Turbonomic, some of the endpoints we can call are throttled. Because of this, when we make multiple calls at scale, many of our calls will receive a 429 and fail. For example, AWS Lambda functions only allow 10 API calls p...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

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

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
8 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Needs to add Cluster Storage Drive Data in Instana

Team, our Dell S2D platform Cluster Storage information is not reported in Instana portal. Instana only reporting the specific Node native drives but not the cluster volumes.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Fix colours on the pie chart report.

The idea is to be able to assign the color to the particular value of the pie chart and fix it there. Currently, if the value has a particular color but then will be hidden by the filter, the color is re-assigned to a different value, which chang...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review