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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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Need to be able to threshold using COUNT even if the object is NOT an entity

Currently, Instana allows you to use a COUNT evaluation within the system rules. This allows customers to COUNT entities that meet a certain criteria. For example, count the number of processes that are running. But, there are number of customer u...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Planned for future release

Name individual spring boot applications when sanitizing sensitive values

We have a customer with a lot of springboot applications and due to their sanitizing policy, we cannot see the application names in Instana and they show up as "*****", there are 3 solutions for this according to springboots own documentation: htt...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Auto Failover for TNC-A components

Currently there is no failover mechanism in any of the components in TNC-A. If any issue happens within any component like impact/probes/objectserver it needs to be handled manually. We are monitoring all these components health manually and takin...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Replication support for External MySQL DB -

Currently External MYSQL DB where the Turbo is installed doesnt support replication. though we are configuring the replication in MysQL , the sync is getting break every day once the file roll over happens.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

"Select All" doesn't select All

While working with Wells Fargo on their new Turbo deployment, we were going through and running plans and after running through many plans, we realized that there were not near as many vm's in the plans as their should be. We went back and went th...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

Have a ThoughtSpot report to show historical growth trend by entity type

We'd like to see a historical growth trend by entity type (e.g., how many VMs, DBs, etc. each day/week/month for the past <time period>)
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

To offer TADDM WMI extention update as a .msi file to simplify automating deployment in environments where the autodeploy feature is not an option

With each TADDM Fixpack, an updated TADDM WMI extention is offered. This WMI extention has to be installed on all Windows systems to ensure the Session and Windows Computer Sensors continue to work properly. One can use the WMI Autodeploy feature ...
10 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Add support for MSSQL instances

Currently, any multi-tenant setup on SQL (aka SQL Instances) is not supported. The request is to add support - and the ideal solution would be to allow Turbo to enumerate all SQL instances via the SQL Server Browsing service.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Functionality already exists

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted