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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

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

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...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under 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

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

Including Forecasts as a dimension in Reporting

Including Forecasts as a dimension in Reporting.
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Functionality already exists

Include optimization options as dimensions in reporting

I'd like to generate a report on rightsizing opportunities and for that report to show me the various options (#1 #2 #3).  Currently, I can see data in the rightsizing UI and have to click on the three dots to see the other recommendations ou...
11 months ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration