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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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Grace Period "None" Option

I set up an event to detect JVM Offline incidents and set it as a critical condition, when this is detected an alert is raised and sent to our Teams channel for my team to react to. Following a critical alert we get a grace period alert which is n...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Is a defect

Runcycle offset, extended math

Allow offsets of runcycles to be layered, as in recursive. Starting from a runcycle frequency statement or calendar, allow it to be nested inside offsets by day, weekdays, workdays, other runcycle frequencies or calendars. For example, to run on t...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

It will be good to know the licence consumption in Turbonomic ie windows, linux, dbs etc

It will be good to know the licence consumption in Turbonomic ie windows, linux, dbs etc for better analysis
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Not under consideration

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

autoprofile support for aarch64

There are a lot of customers using aarch64 infrastructure. but now autoprofile seems only support x64.
almost 2 years ago in Instana 3 Not under consideration

Increase the 256 byte limit of the Situation Take Action command string length.

Reflex situations (Take Action tab) can benefit from not having to manage, maintain and distribute scripts to servers across the estate as they are centrally managed vi the TEP client or CLI. Powerful shell automation logic can be achieved by stri...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Add tracing support for Azure.Storage.Blobs package

The majority of our IO is to Azure Blob Storage Accounts. We would have far more insight into our application if calls via the Azure.Storage.Blobs package were traced with the Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Linux and Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.A...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

2 or more poll data on a same graph

There is a need to show data from at least 2 poll polices on a same graph for single device. This is necessary to provide in order to replace other vendor software usage with ITNM at customer and to keep same device usage visibility that previous ...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Trace Pega solution (Java Based) at the Rules level.

Please Monitor Pega solution at the 'Rules' level. Currently, we are attempting to leverage the Configuration Based Java Tracing SDK - this is not allowing us to configure each rule and display it where it is easily tracked in the UI - this hinder...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Customer wants to be informed which Azure Reserved Instances are not visible to the Turbo Azure Service Principal. This leads to improved cost information on savings.

See IBM Case TS011934194. In the discount inventory report available under Cloud, the column cost savings is wrongly indicated. Instead of calculating the savings by subtracting the PAYGO rate minus the 3 year RI reserved rate, the report is showi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Functionality already exists