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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
6 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Enhance analytic view with http class metric

As our dev/test/ops team analyze service trace/call info service request status it would be great to have optional metric http class as single stat in group view
6 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

VM Family upgrade to newer version even in case of no underutilization

We were looking if Turbo can provide any recommendation of VM Family upgrade even if there was no underutilization. For e.g when we compared the F series VM family, we could see the V2 version providing faster and cheaper VM of the same core. Whil...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Device Type Classification in SevOne REST API

My team owns IBM CP4AIOPS ASM observer that responsible for resource topology discovery. We do have an integration with SevOne, called SevOne Observer. At the moment. I have a request from StarHub and EastLink on the capability for AIOPs to classi...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add VERSA objects for Upstream and Downstream capacity %

Unlike VIPTELA, up to this point VERSA has not provided Upstream/Downstream capacity %. This is now available: https://docs.versa-networks.com/Management_and_Orchestration/Versa_Analytics/Versa_Analytics_Log_Collector_Log_Types/WAN_Interface_Utili...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 2 Planned for future release

RPC call in Instana is not capturing http status code

http code for WCF is mapped as RPC calls in Instana UI and same has been confirmed in the support ticket, we would like to get correct mapping for all http codes in WCF.
3 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Planned for future release

Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Filtering on tickets within ServiceNow integration in CP4AIOps

When defining a ServiceNow integration in CP4AIOps, in the connection form it's possible to select the ticket type (incident, change request, ...), but it's not possible to further filter the ticket of same type (for example based on specific fiel...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

I would like to be able to create policies with someone other than "Site Administrator".

Many systems are already managed by one Turbonomic, but we want to leave policy management to individual system administrators. (a specific non-administrator user on turbonomic who only has limited group acess but able to create new automation pol...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration