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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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ASM Jobs that hit the max_capacity of 10 should pend and then retry, rather than go to Failed. (On prem version and possibly cloud version too)

We have a lot of VMWare observer jobs on ASM 1.1.16 on prem that occasionally hit the max_capacity value set to 10. The jobs go into a Failed state and never restart unless manually restarted. ASM should have a Pending or Waiting state and retry t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Ability to filter database groups by database server name

There is currently the ability to filter by database name, but not database server name. In our azure environment, we have plenty of databases with the exact same name, but are located on different database server names. Adding this filter helps u...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 3 Delivered

Multiple Resource Graph should have 3 day drop down range - in between Last 24 Hours and Last 7 Days

So Turbo keeps data per hour for the last 72 hours - then rolls it up. So it's a VERY USEFUL graph to look back at the last 3 days because it's the maximum duration to see data by the hour. The customer is looking at graphs for hours a day - and u...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 5 Delivered

Allow for successful VM Move actions when resource pool doesn't exist in destination cluster

When creating superclusters, Cluster A has a Resource Pool named ResourcePoolA and ClusterB has a Resource Pool only by the name of ResourcePoolB. Turbonomic will generate move actions from hosts in ClusterA to hosts in ClusterB, and those move ac...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

KAFKA DSA for Impact

We require a KAFKA Data Source Adapter to interface with external and internal systems. NFV vendors are providing KAFKA Message Bus as the interface of choice for new elements and / or applications
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

telnet monitoring using synthetic check

Add a new feature for telnet monitoring using the synthetic check.
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 7 Delivered

Add support for Redis setup in cluster mode

Add s upport for clustering in Redis in Instana collectors
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 2 Delivered

Add VERSA objects for Upstream and Downstream capacity %

Unlike VIPTELA, up to this point VERSA has not provided Upstream/Downstream capacity %. This is now available: https://docs.versa-networks.com/Management_and_Orchestration/Versa_Analytics/Versa_Analytics_Log_Collector_Log_Types/WAN_Interface_Utili...
6 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 9 Delivered

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered