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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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IWA- Enhancement in service catalogs, Drop downlist, parameters

Enhancement in Service catalogs.1. By using drop down list we can restrict user to submit only the predefined parameters while adding job stream. 2. Date and Time formatting, dd/mm/yy mmm/yy 3. Greyed Instruction on variable format which will be h...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add grouping filter to filter VMs by Storage Used/Prov

VM grouping has filters for groups by CPU or Memory sizing, would like the same filtering capability using Storage Used and Storage Provisioned metrics.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Future consideration

DASH: Google Authentication using SAML than OIDC / Liberty

I had engaged Diana to discuss with L3 manager and the respond is this configuration had not been tested end to end and hence not supported until L3 or development team can get it tested to verify that the configuration is successful. This testing...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

DASH /JAZZ / WAS dedicated projected Dashboard user allows to login minimum 30 days

I want to project my dashboard on a big screen for weeks on end without requiring someone to authenticate every day, with the current settings we can do this by increase LTPA token timeout from default 24 hours to required hours/minutes but this i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic to exclude discovering Cancelled Subscriptions

Discovering Cancelled Subscriptions lead to get the data of resources which are not actually billing and will have false savings reported from the recommendations of its resources.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Analytics with large time span reduce available most recent traces

We found that the result set of traces is dependent on the time window used. Example if you use window of last 5 minutes you will get most recent traces , but if you set the a window of 7 days you won't see most recent traces and latest traces bei...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration