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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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Website application monitoring "in-flight request"

Hi. We are using website monitoring feature but we noticed that request that has been started but not yet completed, a.k.a. a request in progress are not traced/visible. Is there any option to see those in-flight requests or if not could be this f...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Increase size of summarization and pruning agent tables columns

There is an a discrepancy between the columns lengths in CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis and CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis_(H,D,W,M,Y). All time related decimal columns in S&P columns are defined as DEC (31,2) and do not match with CICSplex_...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Alerts for required time only.

We have some application running in Day time and 5 days a week and don't want to monitor alerts after hour. If we can add time frame while creating alert that will give the user to ability to set alerts for specific time.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

EWS Probe for reading email attachments

We are using EWS probe for reading emails from outlook site, as the end user report most frequent problems with attachment of the issue over email to common mailbox. We have enabled the netcool probe to read emails from outlook, but using the E...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under consideration

Dash Board Assistance Required

Assistance required for Centralized Dash Board across multiple applications.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

Display and warn of certificate expiry in the Turbo UI

Many of the cases that are opened with Turbo are due to Turbo no longer working and quite often that is due to expired certificates. Normally it is the Kubernetes certificate which has expired, but also the SSL certificate can expire. It would be ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Not under consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Add tag to modified RDS resource when action is executed

DFS is using RDS managed by OCP operator. In order to sync with operator configuration after turbo made RDS instance modification DFS would like Turbo to add a Tag to modified RDS DB, that would say ”Turbo modified - current configuration is ‘inst...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration