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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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Support filter dependencies at Dashboard level

When Execs look at a dashboard and want to drill down they may not know the structure of all the teams. Filter Dependencies should apply to dashboard level so that people can quickly delve down with out having to remember which teams are part of w...
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Allow events to be cloned as a custom event

At present if someone likes a certain built-in event but wants to apply a scope to it or change the threshold they need to create the event from scratch. But you can easily add a clone button to create a new custom event, suing the bult-in event a...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Expand shared views to include all hierarchy levels

When currently sharing a view with an external user, that user will only be able to see the 1st level hierarchy of the report and are not able to drill down to see lower level items. This defeats the purpose of having a shared view if the external...
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Not under consideration

Be able to sort lists/views etc on the left hand pane

It would be useful to be able to sort items on the left hand pane by alpha order or create date, creator, etc.. This should be able to be done on the main level or within a folder. This would make it easier to find items in the left hand pane sprawl.
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Not under consideration

Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Ability to have separate Team Workflows even if there is more than one Final State in the default Workflow for User Stories

Allowing separate Team level workflows when there are two final states would allow us to still have a Cancelled Final State and a Done Final State, but still allow teams to expand for additional states on Workflows to better process their work. Ke...
19 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under consideration

Ability to verify the expiration date of the “update access keys” from the Hardware Management Console

This feature enables the verification of the expiration status of the “update access keys” within the Hardware Management Console. It ensures that administrators can monitor and prevent interrupted access to system updates and hardware management ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Not under consideration