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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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iOs with Netfox library

We propose that Instana consider supporting the NetFox library for iOS applications. This would involve ensuring that Instana's monitoring capabilities can work seamlessly alongside NetFox without causing conflicts or errors in the application's o...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Extend Topology Manager to be able to run Remote Observers for network discovery

With the introduction of Net-Disco and App-Disco plug-ins in ASM v1.1.8 (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9LQB_1.1.8/ProductOverview/r_asm_whatsnew.html#r_asm_whatsnew) , its not possible to run all components on single host as it wou...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Message Bus Probe: token with kafka topic name in rulesfile

Today it is possible to add multiple topics for a given probe installation. However, there is no token available in the rulesfile to check from which topic a given message came from. This means, if I have a common kafka server with topics that req...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ITP – Custom Department Drop-Down

In my company we limit access to cost center of own responsibility. We have cost center managers with cost center reponsibilities in different Hierarchies. Those don't have no possibility to review all cost centers in their responsibility with Pla...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to assign tags to an integration node

Currently, tags can only be assigned to a Host or to some specific sensors such as MQ. Customers have a need to use tags for filtering, thresholding, etc. using tags for other sensors. Specifically, this customer needs to be able to use tags on an...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Have the Policies tab always show the Consistent Resize scaling constraint and its value so that I can guarantee whether it is applied to a VM or group of VMs

When you navigate to a VM or group of VMs, I want to be able to see the value for Consistent Resize that is applied to each to confirm whether or not it is applied. Currently if it is not applied, the setting is not present. This way, there's an a...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Kafka Cluster Consumer Group Metrics at the Partition Level

I would like to monitor Kafka consumer group metrics such as current offset, log end offset, lag, throughput, etc., at the partition level. This would be similar to the metrics provided by the kafka-consumer-groups.sh CLI tool: ▶ bin/kafka-consume...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration