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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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Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Have a way to control how many action to send to ServiceNow

We would like to integrate our Turbonomic with ServiceNow for VM right-sizing actions. But we found out that once we turn on that automation, Turbonomic is going to send all (1000+) of actions to ServiceNow ... that is not acceptable as it will fl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Filesystem specific statistics

Only these file system statistics metrics are available on the Host level Dashboard: capacity, used, leaked, inode usage. But we need additional statistics too. For examples: Read Calls Percent: Of the total number of calls made to the NFS serve...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add "CLUSTER" to relation tree for a group

If you create a group, then go to view the group, you can see several options in the tree on the main landing page of that group. Top to bottom, business app > vm > virtual dc > host > dc. There are many environments that design specif...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

TS015241046 - nco-p-patrol the probe not supported on zLinux

The customer "american express" is moving all Netcool to zLinux, when we try to install nco-p-patrol, it's not supporting. Please could you rebuild the probe to zLinux also? CC8WCEN NetcoolOMNIbus 8 Certified Probe for BMC PATROL V9 (nco-p-patrol-...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Find a way to store historical vm data after cross-vcenter vmotion

Application and capacity teams would like to have important historical information, which get lost on cross vcenter vmotions. This is a hurdle to really adopting superclustering throughout our environment.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Support Yocto Linux for IEAM edge device

Add support Yocto Linux 2.5.1 and 2.5.1+ on Intel Atom processor for IEAM edge device prerequisite OS. IEAM edge device prerequisite OS is described below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKVV_4.1/devices/installing/adding_devices.ht...
over 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 4 Not under consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration