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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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Connect Turbonomic to Azure Database Watcher Fabric metrics store

Azure DB watcher is still in public preview and doesn't support all database types ie IaaS yet. It's great that Turbonomic already supports DB watcher and can connect to a data explorer cluster. It would be great if Turbonomic supported the MSFT f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

Filter Parking entities by custom group

At the moment if we want to park a group of VM's using Turbo we can select by Resource Group or Subscription. It would be helpful to be able filter to a group of VM's defined in a custom group or related to a specific application topology
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
12 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

Avoid duplicating work to submit Ideas for items already told to TAM

Even though we meet with and have an established relationship with IBM for multiple products with TAM. Share our current roadmap and needs many times. But are instead told, must open idea on website. And IBM is telling us to open an idea on the IB...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
6 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Create parser for IBM Turbonomic logs when redirected to Google SecOps (Chronicles)

The syslog or audit log from IBM Turbonomic can be further analyzed to ensure proper security measures are in place when the logs are redirected to external SecOps systems such as Google SecOps (Chronicles). However, a parser is required on Google...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration