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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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DWC: enhance graphical features for successors/pre-decessors

In DWC we have graphical capabilities to present pre-decessors and successors for IWS applications. The graphical view makes it much easier to get the proper insight in the structure of the applications.However, the graphical view for successors i...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Multi-Tenancy to support multiple customers with one CP4MCM Instance

Requirements: Ability to execute / trigger tasks / actions via (e.g. Ansible, etc. ) across multiple customers environments and received the results from multiple customers and display them on the CP4MCM Ability to provide the necessary RBAC struc...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 3 Future consideration

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Create SFTP-FTP for Webi Report Advanced Parameters

Customer ask to create SFTP-FTP plug-in for Webi Report Advanced ParametersIs needed for FTA : FTA041LP_1 (PRD) and FTA040LT_1 (TEST) are all in 9.5 versionHe needs to send via SFTP report created on BO Marco Borgianni was involved on this topic.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists