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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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ALSAC would like to be able to monitor the SalesForce Cloud

We need to proactively monitor the SaleForce Cloud which is used extensively in ALSAC. We would like to be able to observe data such as (but not limited to): Logins and ip addresses related to them Data loads and deletions - unusual activity API A...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Add blacklisting functionality of certain events in the alert configuration.

We really like the possibility to be able to alert on event types. However sometimes, a particular event is not relevant for a specific team and we want to disable it. It would be much more easy in this case to disable certain events in the contex...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

We want to make a group of groups. Currently not possible

There are multiple business cases. ONE: A group of all the groups of prod servers that have been rightsized. And having that one group - enables the Turbonomic Tech Champion to keep an eye on them for performance issues. TWO: Group of Application...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Add support for IBM Cloud

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support IBM Cloud. The customer hope Turbonomic will support IBM Cloud. They ask us fo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Not under consideration

Request to extend the Fixpack download functionality via GetMQFix.jar for ITX and ITCAM Products

TS017232118 We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/s...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow Custom SQL in TEP/TEMS accept SUBSTR, COUNT(*) and GROUP BY SQL functions

The purpose of this idea is to allow TEP/TEMS run queries that summarize the DB2 z/OS thread status by using only the first 4 characteres of the package name. These first 4 characters indicate the application name the package belongs to, so this w...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 4 Not under consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Filter based on risk category and description

Please add support to be able to create a group based on risk category (and description if possible) so that I can build policies that are specific to different types of risk. For example, I would like to be able to create a group and policy that ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration