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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 grouping filter to filter VMs by Storage Used/Prov

VM grouping has filters for groups by CPU or Memory sizing, would like the same filtering capability using Storage Used and Storage Provisioned metrics.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Future consideration

Plugin for MSSQL Jobs - add the possibility to restart from step

The request is to add an optional parameter "step" in the MSSQL job. When such a parameter is set the job is launched (or re-launched) not from the beginning but from the specified step.The step could be specified either by its numeric id, or by n...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Make the 4 minutes fixed deadline of ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART flexible or provide a new option

We need to be able to add a waiting time to the ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART setting in a stream, this is now hard coded to 4 minutes.OrProvide us with a new option, something like ONOVERLAP CANCEL. Which would cancel itself automatically when the next in...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Workload Designer: ability to change the displayed order of Jobs within Job Streams

Currently when adding new jobs to a job stream they end up at the end of the list regardless of where the job goes dependecy-wise. But the job stream can be more clear to read if the job is placed according to its dependencies. This is a request t...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Alert if a job stream getting expire

There might be possibilities that a scheduler adds some specific time frame to a jobstream(Ex : to run 2 months), If a normal daily job added on the stream by mistake in between this 2 months, Job will run only till the date mentioned in the sched...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Alert if recurring job not runs as per schedule

If a recurring job scheduled to run 15 mins in 2 hours, There should be a monitor to check if that job runs 8 times in 2 hours. Or like hourly monitor if there is no 4 triggers. This will help globally to all customers to check if critical recurri...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

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