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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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provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

What-if planing option to evaluate impact if a percentage of VMs upsize

Would like to be able to run a plan that evaluates cluster capacity if VMs in an automation hotadd policy were to upsize. Within the plan be able to on a slide basis evalutate if 10,20 etc. % were to consume the limit of the hot add policy. This w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Graphical Representation of all Jobstreams in the WorkLoad Designer

We would like to have a graphic representation of all the Jobstreams present in the database. Currently, this representation is possible in the current plan but we do not have the equivalent on the Jobstreams present in the WorkLoad Designer
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Read Only Rights on maintenance windows

Hello As mentioned in ticket TS013910126, I want to give READ ONLY rights on maintenance windows, to some users. Currently we can only grant read/write permissions.Best regards
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

WebGUI - Warning message on executing right click tools

Requirement:On executing right click tool in WebGui for multiple alerts a warning message should be displayed. Right click tools configuration should have the capability where we can define some kind of threshold on number of alerts selected and d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enable probe and other properties via UI

There are several instances today where the customer needs to change a property via swagger or going into the yaml file and adding probe or other component/global properties. This is not a great user experience and it would be ideal if user has th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Enable Profiling for Applications on Windows OS

Customers need the ability to identify hotspots at a very granular level, this will help them further troubleshoot Windows hosted applications and services. All customers current and future will benefit from this. This capability should work just ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3