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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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Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Request to upgrade agent code and corresponding sensors to detect all hazelcast applications in the packaged folder.

When two or more Springboot with hazelcast applications are packaged and run into a single tomcat server’s webapps folder, only one of them is detected. Upgrade agent code and corresponding sensors to detect all hazelcast applications in the above...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

WebGUI event viewer selected event export as CSV tool option

The event viewer allows copy+paste of events but these have no separator. We need a tool to export selected events in the event viewer to a CSV/XLS file for use with a spreadsheet. This allows users to discuss and share event details easier, for t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow better group search/filtration

Reposting TURBO-I-342 because it was incorrectly closed. Do not close this and mark it as "already exists" because it doesn't. We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best espe...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

AWS Lambda "invoke" instrumentation

Hello, Recently we have been trying to add our AWS Lambdas to our instana monitoring. We successfully added the node package where it was needed and got good results on lambda call via Messaging (like SQS) or Api Gateways. But we have a problem wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration