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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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Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Provide a means of formatting time properties in Webhook workflows

As a user I would like the ability to format time properties for webhooks as Unix epoch milliseconds rather than iso8601, so I can store the action times in an external systems and plot them on a timeline, allowing me to correlate when the Turbono...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Rate Function without the mean over time

A customer is using Instana Dashboard to display Prometheus metrics and using the Mean and Rate function. The calculation of the Rate function returns the difference divided by the time period. The customers idea is to have an option or the metric...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Remove the first 3 characters currently rendered to denote the group in 'scope-based' searching

When clicking the first time on "scope-based" and enable the second sorting on "temporal" the alarms with temporal grouping are not sorted at all (even when hitting it multiple times). The Development Team has indicated there's a plan for a tweak ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to retrieve the Instana agent configuration file content in the Instana Agent UI

When troubleshooting Instana agent configurations then it is necessary to have SSH access to the host or Kubernetes cluster. If the UI had this feature then I could get the configuration file with a click of a button which would speeds up troubles...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Find Kubernetes entities if the end time is greater than the entity lifetime

At the moment one can find an entity (e.g. Kubernetes Deployment) if the start time is earlier than the entity creation time but it is not possible to find an entity if the selected end time in the UI is later than the entity deletion/termination/...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Numeric sort doesn't always sort as numeric

There are a number of places in Studio where sorting on a numeric field does not produce the expected result for negative values (appears to be sorting as a label).  For example in the Table step in the transform pipeline, an ascending sort y...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana API: Inclusion of Synthetic Trace Calls in Instana API Query for Analyze Trace

Dear IBM Instana Team, Our team frequently utilizes the Instana API to retrieve in-depth alarming details by closely scrutinizing trace details. This has significantly aided our performance analysis and error identification efforts. However, we ha...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

ITP Variance Analysis - Add an Option for an "OR" Statement in the Variance Threshold

Currently, the Variance Analysis, when being set up, can only define a threshold as an AND statement (for example, Variance Analysis required if the variance is +-5% AND +-$10,000). Percentage and Numeric thresholds may be vastly different between...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review