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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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Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Agent for Kafka

It would be useful for our Company to be able to monitor Kafka leveraging the existing ITM infrastructure. As a second choice we would consider using the APM infrastructure
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Using OR & AND logic together between multiple resources columns based on patterns.

We are using NOI Event Analytics mainly for pattern grouping to minimize the number of alerts or minimize the Incidents/noise on Netcool Console. As per the design, Event analytics allows only OR or AND logic between multiple resource columns unde...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

The metrics pods are erroring out because they cannot have a secret defined for them. This causes many errors. Need to turn them off OR add a secret.

The current metrics pods are used to gather data for the last 14 days so that Turbo instances can instantly give recommendations on being connected to a new target without having to wait 14 days. However in this particular client (and I'm sure oth...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Is a defect

Plan improvements: Downloading all plan results

Turbonomic planning allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size node would be be...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

When a script is part of a resize policy the vCPU & vMEM actions are executed together.

Execution of pending actions are completed immediately instead of backing off or executing separately extending the change window. Fewer number of reboots to complete pending actions including vMEM, vCPU, socket matching compliance. Script complet...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Lock only the contracts tab

Customer would like the ability to only lock the contracts tab and not the entire plan 
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

NMS Device Grouping by Product OID/Device Type

A device post discovery is always defined as a particular device type, such as F5, Cisco ASA, etc. Device Group Membership rules should allow for the ability to use Device Type as a means of membership. Currently I am forced to define what the OID...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Updates on the WMI Plugin

The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point. Additionally managing the mapping of devices to WMI Proxies is a nightmare, as it can only be done through the API. Additionally, WMI Proxies are set on a per device basis. Ideally I'd like the abili...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release