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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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Allow Tag Names and Values to be searched by typing rather than death scrolling

When creating a group using Tag filters, there is no easy way to find the tag value you are looking for without scrolling through hundreds of rows, for every single tag (usually there are several needed for a single group) on every group for every...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls.

Need "Export to CSV" option on Analytics/Calls, so that we can export the data of certain duration & see how many calls, errors & latency was there for multiple applications. This would be useful while analyzing the applications performanc...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

save filter button in analytics page

In analytics page you can do filter on applications and all other metrics and stuff but you cant create saved filter for common search criteria or very complex queries.you should create a save button as in infrastructure page.
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Planned for future release

Get an email when an alert has been changed

We have a few teams working in instana and it would be helpful if we could get an email if an alert is changed.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Release card should be exportable to match the List view showing on the screen

Currently, when one exports a list view that includes the Release card, it exports every field on the card, not just fields on the list view. Other Entities are downloadable from a list 'as is'. Release should also be one. There can be many fields...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review