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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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Enrichment of the synthetic alerts (parents) with flags of the grouped alerts (children)

In the NOI version (1.6.4), the synthetic alerts (parents) are displayed WITHOUT (correlation) flags in the alerts views. This is very confusing, especially when the alerts are sorted. It would be useful to enrich the synthetic alerts (parents) wi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Brazil southeast Azure region support

Currently, we don't support in Turbo Brazil southeast region at Azure. It's a region focused to store DRs workloads, but they are still manageable and requires rightsizing. XP wants to manage this region.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

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

To be able to monitor PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 4 Planned for future release

Remove the first 3 characters currently rendered to denote the group in 'scope-based' searching

When clicking the first time on "scope-based" and enable the second sorting on "temporal" the alarms with temporal grouping are not sorted at all (even when hitting it multiple times). The Development Team has indicated there's a plan for a tweak ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

Identify when OpenShift is running on baremetal correctly

Redhat OpenShift can be deployed on virtual machines or on baremetal, however all the screens in Turbo are assuming virtual machines are being used and displays all CPU memory value prefixed with "Virtual", so when you deploy on baremetal the labe...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 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