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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?
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

support for aws china region and azure china region

csm is proposing Turbonomic to customer MCDONALDS-CN together with seller and tech sales team. customer is satisfied with the POC result against their VMware and K8S environment, wish Turbonomic can support their public cloud providers(Azure China...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Support kubeturbo communication flowing to a Secure Client

Kubeturbo communication need to be stablished directly to the SaaS Server, including On Prem Cloud Native clusters (in Hybrid environments). In a High secure environments with dozens (and even hundreds) of clusters, customers need to open firewall...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Functionality already exists

System Capacity filter

Previously I can setup filesystem capacity event alert with "entity.host.filesystems.fs.name" filter under scope. Unfortunately this filter has been obsoleted and Instana introduced NO alternative solution to this. Instana support advised to confi...
22 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Instana in Jazz for SM

There is a need to integrate Instana portal in same DASH portal as Netcool Omnibus and ITNM. This way administrators would access Instana pages from same portal that contained notification in alarm form that there is an issue with application. Thi...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
3 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Adding Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor.

Please add Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor for on-premises environments. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Integration with Oracle EBS for Logs, metrics, and traces

Toshiba Ops team need visibility to Oracle EBS which will allow for RCA
4 months ago in IBM AIOps Insights 0 Not under consideration

Sendevent using restapi

We have developped a tools which manage many cases coming from migration from CM/Autosys/.... and this tools use restapi and we would like to use also restapi to simulate the sendevent and replace the sendevent of Autosys. But this sendevent API f...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration