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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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SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
2 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Future consideration

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

To integrate IBM Workload scheduler to netcool

We have two scheduler in our organization Autosys and TWS and what we have observed is autosys is directly able to send the autosys batch logs to netcool via SNMP traps but the same is not available between TWS and netcool and due to that we had t...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
8 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

ITP - Contracts tab - Extension adjustment is only calculated once even for multi-year contracts

Extension adjustment for contracts is only calculated once. So if the original price is 100 euros and extension is +3% it will be 103 euros for all the following years instead of compounding annually.There needs to be an ability to compound the in...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 6 Is a defect

GlassBox integration to see the Instana backend tracing correlated to the end user sessions recorded by GlassBox.

The customer want to understand better the beckend behavious starting from the GlassBox recorded sessions.
2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Under review

Unable to upload mdb file type using upload link

When I try to upload a mdb file in the Test Case run, it gives an error of 'Invalid file extension,' but copy-pasting is working.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review