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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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Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Instana in Jazz for SM

There is a need to integrate Instana portal in same DASH portal as Netcool Omnibus and ITNM. This way administrators would access Instana pages from same portal that contained notification in alarm form that there is an issue with application. Thi...
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Built-In Host disk space event description must include the mount point (for Unix and Linux).

Currently event description looks like : Deveice '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v' is full. Clean space on '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v'.... This not descriptive and less usable. It's more preferred to use mount point instead of disk device space.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

List of events that triggered alerts

It would be beneficial to be able to retrieve a list of all events that have triggered alerts within a specified time frame. Currently, there is no direct way to filter alerts based on which ones were triggered by what events. Adding this fe...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

TopN reports CSV extract has unit in bytes

In today's world, nobody subsribes to services in bits and bytes. The unit should be either in Kbytes or MBytes so that the Customers and Service Managers can do their calculation easily
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Turbonomic support ECS for EC2 and/or Faragate

Itau Bank is one of the largest retail bank in Latin America is requesting to include in the Turbonomic roadmap the support for ECS (EC2 and Faragate). Itau is a heavy user of ECS environment. Environment : Primary Cloud: AWS - ~5000 AWS Accounts ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 8 Not under consideration