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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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Instana Mode set as IQM not be defaulted back to APM on machine reboot

We were doing our monthly patching on mongo machines where the Instana mode was showing as IQM in GUI of Instana and on the machine console as well.[ec2-user@mng3~]$ sudo cat /opt/instana/agent/etc/instana/com.instana.agent.main.config.Agent.cfg# ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Is a defect

Mandatory predecessors for TWSd.

In TWS 9.1 is announced a new type of predecessors who allow waits for at predecessor, which is not in the plan at Make-plan time. But this new type is only deliveret to TWSz in TWS version 9.1. Please also deliver the mandatory predecessor type f...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Publish from Labor Activity Tab

When publishing from the labor activity tab, there is no indication or confirmation of what they are pushing.  Would be good to  provide an indicator of what you are publishing (FTE or Hours) or provide a choice/box to select 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Instana email notification does not include status and other important fields for alert condition

Client has reported that the email content does not include alert payload e.g. threshold, metric, status. Lack of status field does not let client effectively use email notifications for additional processing of the event. Request is to add all al...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Saving NCO_PA configuration file via CLI utility

We can customize (add processes and services) of Process Agent settings via CLI nco_pa_addentry utility, but all new implemented settings can not be saved by any CLI tool.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Instana tracing support for monitoring Dynamics AX 2012 ERP

Performance monitor our Dynamics AX 2012 R3 solution, which are our ERP system, and primary data accumulator. We want a special focus on SQL performance. The software running our Dynamics AX solutions is: Dynamics AX AOS server (.net application),...
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

getting gcp tags information into turbonomic

This is because everyone uses labels and tags differently in google.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Make the optimization of Turbonomic by Turbonomic available per default when deploying on OpenShift

The Turbonomic OVA always includes the feature that Turbonomic optimizes itself and displays itself as business application. For this purpose the OVA included Prometheus to gather the required metrics, prometurbo to import those to Turbonomic, kub...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System

Support installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration