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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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Db2 custom workload's metrics

Current Instana supports only Db2's default workload (SYSDEFAULTUSERWORKLOAD). In many cases, Db2 users create custom workload(s). Such users would be happy if Instana can collect these custom workloads' metrics.
4 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Resource Grouping Topology Connectivity for a Specific Group

Hello Team, In the ITNM, there is an option to create a Network view. That would contain the connectivity of all the devices in that view. In ASM, when we did the Resource Grouping based on a site, the devices are grouped but there is no connectiv...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Request to enhance the JDBC gateway to enable connections to two Databases in a single gateway process

Request to allow JDBC gateway to write to two databases in a single gateway process - This allows us to write to different databases at the same time ensuring the delivery of all alarms to both the databases simultaneously.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

Implement support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer.

Implementing support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer is useful because it will extend the functionality of the system, allowing integration with additional services that are not currently supported. This will benefit developers...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

SQL Server Target Enhancement

Hi Team, Currently we can add only one port for SQL server Database targets but if there are multiple SQL server instances with different ports then we need to add multiple targets so I would suggest there should be option to add multiple ports in...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Would like to go with Agentless setup for SAP S/4 on Azure Cloud.

No binary files need to be installed for Dynamic Agent on Cloud VM
4 months ago in Workload Automation 3 Under review