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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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Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.API should have same functionality as resource.sh. Similiar command to take DA offline (-setOffline) or online (-setOnline)./tws*****/ibm/TWA/TDWB/bin/resource.sh -usr TWS_ID -pwd xxxx...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Column Order in Tables with Editable Table Step

The column ordering cannot be updated in tables with a transform step, such as an Editable Table step. The data in the final Table step is displayed with a different column order than the source editable table. ApptioOne should be updated to addre...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent Sessions Enabled

Background: Concurrent session enabled refers to a feature or setting within an application or system that allows a user to be logged in and active from multiple devices or locations simultaneously. In other words, a user can have multiple concurr...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
8 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

DB and K8 Certificate Monitoring for OVA Deployments - on-Premise

Insight into when DB is filling and when K8 Certificates Expire. Today there are no warnings when this happens
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Display IP Address on Comparison Table

On comparison table, user can gather the overview condition of host utility, with hostname as its identifier. However, to validate and further troubleshoot the host condition, user will logon to the server by using IP address. Therefore knowing th...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration