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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Bulk Create IAM Roles and add as Targets when adding a Master Billing account

Turbonomic supports ingesting AWS data from already created IAM Role/Users for specific AWS Accounts. This is great for 1 or 2 AWS accounts, but for customers who have 100s of AWS accounts, this can be very tedious. I am aware AWS allows their use...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

AWS Plugin - Recommended Cloud Object Types for Enhanced Scope

The Following AWS Object Types/Indicators in our business were defined as critical key indicators that our clients would want to have visibility and alerting to, the request of this IDEA is a step to create further metrics to be gathered by the pl...
2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 3 Planned for future release

AWS Plugin - Peer Distribution Options for AWS Profile Device Creators.

With a Master Cluster build, our least allocated peer will always be our Cluster Master. A business design of the master is that it is used as the main interface of all users for production environments, api scripting, data enrichment, and other c...
2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

AWS Plugin - Synthetic Indicators

As opposed to using REST API to create calculation poller data, we would be able to define expressions that use the pollable fields to create new AWS objects for metrics. (Examples of this can include In and Out metrics translated from their bits/...
2 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

Add cluster data to Turbo Plans

Currently the plans in Turbo show host level. I would benefit from seeing cluster level information in the plans.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
28 days ago in Instana / PHP 1 Submitted

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Having real names against usernames

Minor thing .. when creating a user on the appliance, any chance extra fields for that users real name, department and contact details ?
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

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...
19 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted