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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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Keep Instana data in an isolated volume

I attempted to set up the Instana Docker backend by integrating an EFS storage solution, which I mounted to the /mnt directory. However, the installation process did not complete and became stuck at the "migrate-data" phase. Following this, I enco...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Storage 0 Under review

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

Add list of Policies to bottom of Volume details page for consistency

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it, so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see this list on volumes.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Enable functionality to display Disk Size Utilization

While Turbonomic might not be able to take action to downsize a particular disk based on utilization, it would be a good value-add to present this data, so that users could see if they need to replace the drive with one more appropriately sized fo...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Provide more granular label in UI for AWS RDS Aurora Volume types

Currently the UI only shows that an RDS instance is on aurora storage but not which type. Aurora offers two types of storage I/O and Standard https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.Overview.StorageReliability.html
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Turbonomic should be able to Suspend SQL Managed Instances

Turbonomic has suspend already for VMs and RDS servers. What about SQL MI? The customer would save on compute costs - but of course still have to pay for storage, etc.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Scaling Constraints could use more granular timeframe for observation period.

Currently the Minimum Observation Period max is 7 days. (you may need a couple weeks or month minimum to stabilize a workload). The Max Observation Period jumps from 30 days to 90 days. A happy medium in between like 45/60days would probably help ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Fix consistency of Action Essentials between entity types

Currently other entity types such as RDS and EBS show whether downtime is required or not but EC2 does not provide this warning. Currently the State says "Action can be accepted and executed immediately." which may be misleading to someone not pay...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Support for monitoring Azure Power Apps

We whould like to monitor apps created with azure power apps. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/power-platform . Collect traces and metris from the applications.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review