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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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ITP Variance Analysis - Add an Option for an "OR" Statement in the Variance Threshold

Currently, the Variance Analysis, when being set up, can only define a threshold as an AND statement (for example, Variance Analysis required if the variance is +-5% AND +-$10,000). Percentage and Numeric thresholds may be vastly different between...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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

Allow Impact role 'impactWebServiceUser' to be able to run API Calls

Currently only one user group 'impactAdminUser' is a having access to run REST API in Netcool/Impact. Role 'impactAdminUser' has elevated permissions and dont want this permissions for users who just want to run REST API calls. Could you please se...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

OKR collection capability from external source

We need to have a way to connect our external OKR management tool with our ATP OKRs. USers currently have to enter them manually.
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Under review

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

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 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 "...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration