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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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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

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Use websockets to establish communication between MCM Cluster Hub and the managed cluster (Public Cloud)

Sometimes the cluster hub could be installed in a data center with several security restrictions, with some exceptions the customer could open the outbound traffic to internet, in order to manage another cluster like EKS, AKS, etc. but at the end ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
8 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Have a simple interface for bulk-adding targets

When adding new features, like initial install of multiple vCenters or adding Databases to an existing installation (pretty much any type target that may have multiple entities), on the "add target" screen have the option to select a CSV file for ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

URLs for direct access to Action Center & Action Center Details

Desired customer use case: Customer is leveraging webhooks to send pending Turbo actions directly to end-users. They want a way to expose a link that takes the user directly to the Action Center Details view for a given entity/action. Today, we ca...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration