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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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Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
14 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Want a way to see cloud volume snapshots that are still connected to a VM & not flagged as wasted storage or disconnected.

AbbVie leverages snapping of AWS volumes and does not have a automated process to clean up and or remove volume snapshots still connected to volumes. They want a way to have Turbonomic identify the snapshots with these criteria's: 1. Age of snapsh...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

New user role - with permissions between Automator and Site administrator

A client has requested a new user role, with permissions between Automator and Site administrator. The idea is to have a user role with the permissions to manage the policies and to execute actions. Nowadays the Automator can execute the actions b...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP. These accounts show up in UI with Red X, which gives the appearance that not all of the accounts have been Advanced Credentialed...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Parking feature support for ARO clusters

Parking feature support for ARO clusters: currently, it is only included in the roadmap for AKS clusters. Bradesco is one of the largest banks in Brazil, and Azure is their main cloud service provider, with many applications running on ARO clusters.

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Gateway for Message Bus should support additional fields for Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property

If integrating the OMNIbus gateway for message bus with Kafka the property Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey only supports either the field ServerSerial or ServerName.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netcoolomnibus/8.0.0?topic=file-properties-command-line-opt...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted

FX Rate Automation

Integrate FX Rate Automation into Multi Currency - giving Administrators the opportunity to utilize an automated end of month or average rate to convert into their preferred currency.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review