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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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PHP 8.3 support

PHP 8.3 was released on 23 Nov 2023. Instana only supports 8.2, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
12 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Functionality already exists

TWS Operator Comments Section for each job

While performing operations on jobs like say putting a job on hold, a section to capture operator comments is required. This helps when there are multiple shifts and handover of operations to next shift. By capturing the comments it helps operatio...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

When exporting all Cloud Pending Actions from Actions Center, we would like to have the Resource ID (vendor ID from the entity information widget) included in the Export.

This would be extremely useful when reconciling cost data between Turbonomic and the AWS Billing console. Our FinOps Team and Budget Managers use data from both Turbonomic and AWS Billing Console to show the value of Turbonomic Recommended Actions.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Support for amazoncorretto:19-alpine

We are currently using amazoncorretto:18-alpine docker images for our application builds and we started an upgrade to a new version of gradle plus a new corretto version (amazoncorretto:19-alpine) but then Instana stopped working (no more applicat...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2

Saving NCO_PA configuration file via CLI utility

We can customize (add processes and services) of Process Agent settings via CLI nco_pa_addentry utility, but all new implemented settings can not be saved by any CLI tool.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Automatic policy creation for instance type scale that take Availability Zones into consideration.

Sometimes, we encounter the error 'The requested configuration is currently not supported.' due to the instance scaling action. Example: t3.micro -> t3a.nano Regions where each instance type is supported: t3.micro: ap-northeast-1d, ap-northeast...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Instana to support GPU monitoring on Openshift Container Platform

Hi, My customer ISBANK needs Instana to support GPU machines on openshift.Instana supports GPU monitoring for just standalone docker servers with GPUs. According to the result of a related case, we learned that there is no support for GPU monitori...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

OOB functionalities oriented to telecommunications companies

The event management solution, NOI has and is used by many companies in the telecommunications sector and we are promoting Cloud Pak for watson AIOPs as the evolution of traditional management, I believe it would be of greater impact if we had OOB...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Provide an UI view for the historical resolved alerts, stories WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager). There is a filter that let's you choose "Status = Resolved" but it is not showing result.

The customer will like to have some way to show the lasted alerts and stories been resolved because it could be shown on stories and alerts after. How to visualize resolved Stories? There is a filter that let's you choose "Status = Resolved" but i...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide more information on-demand costs in the Recommendation download file for VMs

I would like to see both the on demand costs for the downsized machines both with ROI and without the ROI as it will be more helpful on calculation savings from the on demand
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration