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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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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

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

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

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

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
about 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 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 ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

See VM's Group Membership

I’d like to see what Turbo groups a server belongs to when scoped to that server.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration