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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 support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Is a defect

Can't use REGEX in ACCOUNT as a filter when creating Virtual Machine and Volume groups

You can't use REGEX in ACCOUNT filter when creating Virtual Machine group. Customers have hundreds of accounts and need to roll one by one clicking. This slow down the management process and lead to human errors.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 11

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
10 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Improved Policy Management - Tagging, Folders & Filters

As an administrator, I would like the ability to organize my automation & placement policies as I define them - either by folder or tag. This would allow me to quickly navigate to specific types of policies built for my environment by cluster,...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Allow the option to set our own custom domain within Apptio

It doesn't look like there's an option in Apptio for true SSO currently unless we use the Azure My Apps URL. As this is quite long, we will implement a workaround where we setup a domain of customerurl and redirect that to the SSO URL. However, on...
3 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration