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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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24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

nco_p_message_bus - message_bus_cisco_epnm supporting EMS server redundancy

To support redundancy at the endpoint, an enhancement is required for the probe to rotate endpoint addresses between the primary and backup servers depending on availability. EMS - Cisco EPNM Probe - nco_p_message_bus Transport - Websocket (messag...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

There should be a Read-Only option when it comes to viewing applications and resources

Currently, when you grant user access to a role with "manage applications", the user has access to view, create, modify and delete applications. We Do not want to allow a basic operator level user to have permission to modify or delete application...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)
12 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Technical Administrator User Type

It would be helpful if there could be a Technical Administrator user type/role that has most of the admin permissions but can be blocked from viewing entities in specific portfolios or processes for HR/Management use.
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Provide a "performance per watt" metric for environments

The idea of a "performance per watt" metric for hardware environments - particularly x86 platform - would be a good way of distinguishing between server types at a fundamental sustainability level. I suspect the metrics needed for this are already...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 2 Future consideration

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration