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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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Add ability to send email to ALL users

I would be very helpful to have the ability to send an email to ALL users. We are an on-prem installation.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 1 Not under consideration

Allow usage of namespace egress IPs in NOI on OCP installations

Our customer is extending their Netcool landscape to integrate several existing sites into one centralized NOI based on OCP. Actually there are various components within NOI on OCP, that need to connect to these already existing sites. Some exampl...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Cisco Intersight Managed Mode

Moving from Cisco UCS Manager to Intersight Managed Mode is resulting in a loss of feature functionality in data to enhance marketplace decisions. Please add support for Intersight Managed Mode to retain equivalent data as we add more and more IMM...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

vVol datastore support for storage moves

Allow storage move actions from VMFS datastore clusters to vVol datastores to provide a way to automate migration to vVols
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Needs more information

Active Directory Monitoring and Tracing

Application monitoring/tracing for Domain Controllers and Active Directory will improve our enterprise observability into a key application. By using Instana as the enterprise monitoring tool, we need all applications to be monitored/traced in a s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Include VIO Servers in the PowerVM support

I think it is important to support VIO Servers in the PowerVM support. At least add an option to allow the user to include VIO Servers. We used to have data/recommendations for VIOS when we were using Densify, so we knew we need to right-sized the...

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instans custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration