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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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Expand options for monthly execution schedules

Currently monthly reoccurring schedules are limited to picking a specific day (3rd Wednesday), but don't allow for selecting a timeframe such as 2nd weekend or 3rd week. Often patching and maintenance schedules are a timeframe such as the last wee...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Enable a toggle feature to be able to execute actions in a more granular way for Database Server recommendations

Currently recommendations for RDS may have three distinct changes: Instance type, instance size, storage type. In cases where one or two of the recommendations don't make sense, allow a toggle to disable that recommendation (either on the action d...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Add search field on the cloud Top Accounts page.

Currently you can search by account in the target list, or in the Search/Accounts list (which doesn't show you summary data), but if you go to the Top Accounts page, there is no way to easily search for the item you are looking for. This is really...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Add "Back" navigation to primary areas

When starting from the home screen it defaults to the Application tab. You then have to click Cloud tab and then Show All on the accounts widget, then scroll all the way down to find the one you're looking for. If you need to back out a level to l...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
about 1 month ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

It is required to have support for the Universal Payments Framework (UPF) technology developed by ACI Worldwide.

The UP Framework is at the core of ACI’s Universal Payments strategy to enable end-to-end enterprise payments. It is a set of technologies and frameworks that orchestrate all aspects of payments processing for any payment type, any channel, any cu...
24 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Reflect host provision actions in the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget

In contrast to host suspension actions the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget does reflect host provisioning actions (see attached screenshot). According to engineering the reason is that the real-time market does not generate move actions bef...

The time range of the link in event closure mail should be set according to the end date/time, not start date/time

If user click the link of the closure mail of the event, it looked like the event is still active, and the icon is red. This is because the time range of the link is:From: event start date/time - 5 minsTo: event start date/time + 5 mins But we thi...
25 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Filter conditions should be private / shared by certain permissions

Instana users can "save, edit, and delete filters". https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-filtering-dynamic-focus And it is 'shared' with all users automatically. But if a customer plans to accept Instana corporat...
25 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted