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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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Synthetic Data not available for dashboards

We are not able to create dashboard with synthetics data, use cases: * line graph of historical results of all synthetics in a specific location or by region for x range of days* see all failed synthetics for a pop location or for a region in a gi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Future consideration

There should be a Read-Only option when it comes to viewing applications and resources

Currently, when you grant user access to a role with "manage applications", the user has access to view, create, modify and delete applications. We Do not want to allow a basic operator level user to have permission to modify or delete application...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future 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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 8 Not under consideration

Gamify Savings in Turbonomic to encourage competition.

Some of the biggest hurdles in achieving efficiency savings in Turbonomic is competing priorities. Some of the successes at companies to achieve Turbo driven savings, is to create a competitive game between departments and/or app teams on savings....
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

On-Prem Deployment using AWS IAM User assume role for all accounts

Instead of creating, managing, and configuring hundreds of IAM users for large AWS organization footprints, allow the use of a single iam user access key and secret and then a role to assume in order to collect the other account details. Either pa...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists