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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?
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Completed and Failed Actions should contain Actions that have been scheduled but cancelled by the Turbo AI

Business Context. An efficiency action was generated by the AI. The Action was agreed with the App Owner and Scheduled. But then the business conditions changed - and the AI cancelled the Action (which is good). What is bad is that there was no co...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Workload Console 9.5 Audit Data

Dynamic Workload Console V9.5 has no audit tracking. Would like to see some type of log which tracks items like User Logon/off and user search and updates while in the tool.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Allow to alert only on new, unique errors

For front-end browser errors in particular, it would be very helpful to receive alerts for new errors, which are unique based on their error message and source code position. Instana already contains the concept of unique JavaScript errors based o...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Events add - ability to add the joblog from a batch job Event Rule in the Event Email that is sent out to individuals

This is useful because customers can see just in their email what the issue in the joblog was.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow polling of Strings via SNMP

Today Palo Alto Firewalls running in HA mode can be monitored via OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.1.11 to see their current state of HA. The values returned are strings and can be "disabled", "active", or "passive" Other vendors like F5 have used inte...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

SOL005 observer request

A dynamic virtualized network topology in telco needs sol005 interface.
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ASM ITNM Observer should support Node to Node links

Currently ASM ITNM Observer shall bring in port to port level or Interface to Interface level link connectivity from ITNM Topology to ASM Topology but do miss the Node to Node or Chassis to Chassis level inferred connections. So ASM ITNM Observer ...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration