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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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Allow ability to not actually suspend hosts, but put them in a state where no VMs will be placed on them

The way that our infrastructure is set up does not respond kindly to host suspend/power off actions, but we want to be able to densify our current environment. We'd like the ability to enable "suspend host" such that we can operate efficiently on ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

AI Manager to send the story via email.

AI Manager can only send notifications using slack or Microsoft Teams. Some customers does not have ChatOps. Why not to allow AI manager to send them email notification so they can utilize the feature.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon DynamoDB (Turbonomic)

Many of our customers (including potential customers) use AWS Dynamo DB, and the support for it is the key to Turbonomic's penetration to the Japanese market and customers' higher satisfaction. Your prompt cooperation to our idea would be highly a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Monitoring WAS in AS400/Iseries

I currently have more than 100 Websphere application servers in as400 and with instanta I cannot monitor them, so I request your help so that they have this need and the collector is created, as well as tivoli monitoring, apm, Icam
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Variable handling - configurable per tab or global

Variable handling in DI is very limiting having variables that apply to all tabs in a report. Not only is it restrictive but can also be confusing with different variable types and data it applies to (especially with flow). It should be possible t...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Password encryption in configuration.yaml file

HI Team, It is one the audit highlights not to have password mentioned as plain text in configuration file. Kindly include feature or way to have encryption password in configuration.yaml without need to purchase separate license. Regards Harpreet
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Alerting for license usage

Due to the new licensing terms and conditions an alert needs to exist which notifies if the current agent usage reaches the amount of purchased licenses. The alert should be customizable with an individual absolute or percentage based threshold.Th...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists