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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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Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 5 Delivered

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Splunk Connection Via Proxy

Connecting to Splunk instance behind a proxy is not working with the current Splunk Connector available in AIOps, this limits customer for major data source connection for Splunk.
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Delivered

Turbonomic VLAN ID Merge and Mapping for vCenter portgroups with different names but same VLAN IDs

Our superclusters are spread between two VDS within vCenter, 1 for our legacy 10gbe network and the other for our 25gbe ACI network. vCenter requires the port group names to be unique and the unique naming is preventing Turbonomic from merging the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

Plan migration of cloud workloads back to on-premise datacenter.

Turbonomic allows us to plan a move of on-prem workloads to cloud (Azure), but we want the ability to plan moves of cloud workloads back on-prem. We are maintaining on-prem resources to allow for bringing our servers home, but need to make sure th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Delivered

Need to document workaround when Trend Micro is running on Windows servers

When Trend Micro is installed on Windows servers, it prevents the Instana Agent from running properly and connecting to the Instana backend. The customer had to white list the fully qualified path to the instana agent and instanaPCP.exe processes....
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Ability to select local region to deploy ARM SaaS

Many customers in Japan are required to keep their data locally for security and data sovereignty reasons. Several prospects have already asked if ARM SaaS can be deployed in the local region. This is probably the same case for some of the EMEA co...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 5 Delivered

ability to monitor .NET Core without compiling application with nuget

Almost every customer we meet both new and current uses a mix of .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. Our biggest concern is that almost all applications written for .Net Core is developed outside the customer and they have no control over t...
10 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Delivered

Add support to TADDM to discover RHEL v.9.4 targets

RHEL 9.4 was released 4/30/24 and is already being deployed in our organization. Full support for RHEL 9.4 as target OS for TADDM is still not available as of 7.3.0.11 and documentation only shows support up to RHEL 9.3.

Support for vSphere 8

Hi team, We found out that Instana supports vSphere until version 7 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-monitoring-vsphere#supported-versions Please support version 8. Thank you
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered