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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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Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

DASH: Google Authentication using SAML than OIDC / Liberty

I had engaged Diana to discuss with L3 manager and the respond is this configuration had not been tested end to end and hence not supported until L3 or development team can get it tested to verify that the configuration is successful. This testing...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Ability to monitor the custom process and change the process name based on the different arguments

This feature request is to monitor the custom process end to end. Basically the running batch process on the server when we have requests to run different batch processes some on a particular schedule and some on an adhoc basis. So, when the batch...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output message when issue "chkconfig on" command

"Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output error messages when issuing "chkconfig on" command. " When we issue "chkconfig on" command at TSA environment, we receive some messages from insserv shown as foll...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Request for a written description of detailed information in the TSA manuals

"Request for a written description of detailed information about relationship between OpState of resources and OpState of resource group, in Administrator's and User's Guide" This request comes from the PMR - 79859,6XM,760 (E54-z-79859)TSA V3.2.1 ...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

restricting API source IP addresses

Anyone who knows API token can change Instana configuration with using Instana API. For security, I hope that Instana backend should be able to restrict API source IP addresses.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Exporting data from DWC

The feature of exporting any details from DWC to specific formatted file, say a .csv file is not available. Addition of this will be of great help for operations/schedulers across the board
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

TNPM. Show Realtime Report - without Java

Currently the Realtime Reports are entitled to run using the Java Show Realtime Report - You can go into this mode through Define Resource View when switching to any interface of any node
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration