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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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Make the metrics for "max_metrics_reached" with the limit accessible for alerts

We hit the "max_metrics_reached" on one of our tenants on an agent and we had to reach out to support (TSo17688362) for assistance. Support requested a metric limit increase, which removed the message and allowed the agent to capture more metrics ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

IBM SevOne NMS upgrades should allow for limit or throttling of ssh connections

During a production upgrade for IBM SevOne NMS, a Palo Alto Networks firewall adaptive security policy automatically blocked traffic between IBM SevOne NPM peers due to excessive network traffic on TCP port 22. SevOne NPM uses Ansible to perform c...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration

Turbonomic support ECS for EC2 and/or Faragate

Itau Bank is one of the largest retail bank in Latin America is requesting to include in the Turbonomic roadmap the support for ECS (EC2 and Faragate). Itau is a heavy user of ECS environment. Environment : Primary Cloud: AWS - ~5000 AWS Accounts ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 8 Not under consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

Built-In Host disk space event description must include the mount point (for Unix and Linux).

Currently event description looks like : Deveice '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v' is full. Clean space on '/dev/mapper/rootVG-v'.... This not descriptive and less usable. It's more preferred to use mount point instead of disk device space.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Lower the size of the .ova hard drive

When importing the .ova the machine disk is 1,75Tib. Even if all this space is not used up thanks to thin provisioning, it is still a bad practice to over-provision that much storage. In our case the thinning of the space is done on the storage ba...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

CPU scaling on vCPU not MHz

As I know Turbonomic is scaling vCPU based on the MHZ or GHz config of the underlying physical Host. The problem with this is that we have some virtual machine groups with „consistent resizing“ but Turbonomic has actions for one vm to increase vCP...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

We want to make a group of groups. Currently not possible

There are multiple business cases. ONE: A group of all the groups of prod servers that have been rightsized. And having that one group - enables the Turbonomic Tech Champion to keep an eye on them for performance issues. TWO: Group of Application...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Option to display the current CPU, Memory & Disk Utilization in the event message

We are unable to append the Current utilization values for infrastructure events, whereas the same option is available for the Application performance related alerts. It will be better to have the same for the Infrastructure alerts as the Admin te...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration