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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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Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Support CISCO Intersight as Target

CISCO is moving customer away from the legacy UCS Manager solution to their InterSight solution. We no longer have access to UCS Manager in our new UCS environment. So, we will need Turbonomic to start supporting CISCO InterSight as a target in or...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Implement SCIM

Although Instana implements some SSO, it doesnt cover the full user lifecycle. We would like to see SCIM implemented so that users who fall out of scope of the SAML (in our case) application are also deleted in Instana. At the moment its a semi ma...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Historical Dashborad for incidentes and alerts is requiered

A standard task in IT Operations teams is to report and analyze incidents monthly to create improvement plans, tracking and to get statistical analysis. Is requiered to have the ability to create dashboard containing all the incidents and alerts i...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Create baselines based of netflow data

The specific ask from the customer is the ability to learn normal behaviour (and alert when there is an anomaly) of the IP flows going through the network (source IP, dest IP and application). This is a specific use case, but it would be great if ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 0 Future consideration

Monitor AWS Internet GW

This will provide metric collections in AWS for internet traffic
3 months ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Future consideration

Ability to set a Maximum Utilization Constraint for nodes in OCP/K8s clusters

As a customer, I need to be able to set a maximum utilization I don't want to pass for nodes, regarding the sum of all requests of all pods running there. Use case is: for production environment, I want to be sure to have enough capacity to retrie...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Metric anomaly detection for subset of alerts based on user-defined rules

In CP4AIOps 4.3, we introduced the ability to measure the number of events coming through the system and then send them to Metrics to determine when event volumes change significantly. The number of events coming through the system is defined as a...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

VCPU Resize Min threshold does not generate compliance actions

User Story: User has an application which needs a minimum of 3 cores for multithreading. He sets the VCPU Resize Min threshold to 3 BUT the machines which have 1 vCPU don't show 3 vCPU as the target size. He wants to force this - so he'd like a ch...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release