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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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To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Turbonomic support for IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises)

We request Turbonomic to support IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises) as a storage optimization target. We would like to monitor the capacity and the actual usage of the storage and be able to take optimization actions as needed.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
3 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

The alerts priority in an AIOPs incident (hence the root cause) should change as there are more alerts received after the incidents has been created.

In practice, events may still come after the Incident has been created, and the priority has been assigned. The later alerts might be the root cause. So the Incidents prioritisation and root cause analysis should be triggered as there are more ale...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
3 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Under review

Export analytics of calls and subcalls as image and as PDF-report

Provides complete information for ticketing systems without granting access to Instana. Enables communication with 3rd party vendors. Especially important to analyze calls with a large number of subcalls.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Provide Ability to Control or Eliminate Product Update Pop-Ups

Not all users use the functionality that the popup refers to causing confusing. Privacy concerns around surveys or pop-ups requesting a response drive the desire to control who and when these pop-ups appears. Would like the ability to control whic...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review