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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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Is it possible to get an alert when a VM is live migrated in Azure

Is it possible to get alerts from Instana when VM is live migrated in Azure (Microsoft Alerts are inconsistent)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Karthik would like the ability to customize the name for his New Relic targets in the Turbonomic UI

The customer has 100+ NR accounts he would like to add into Turbonomic and currently the only way they can be named is off the New Relic Account Number. Being able to make a customized name would solve the problem of the customer having to constan...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

When Turbo lists “vCenter” as the source, I would like the specific vCenter noted – similar to how it lists cloud accounts.

When having multiple vCenter's this will help the client specifically identify which vCenter Turbo is recommending actions for.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Windows .Net service getting discovered without adding package Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows

Windows .Net service should auto discovered in Instana once instana agent is installed in the host without any code instrumentation or without adding Nuget package this will help us to avoid new release.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

ThoughtSpot maintenance should be performed outside of working hours.

On the top page of ThoughtSpot, there is an announcement that "ThoughtSpot service will be unavailable from 10 11 2023 4:00 UTC to 10 11 2023 8:00 UTC due to maintenance".This is from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Japan time, which is during working hours. Ple...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Documentation on the policies created dynamically

We don't have documentation on policies Turbonomic creates on the fly based on the target environment configuration/setttings e.g. ASG, compliance policies, k8s env policies etc. Can we have this documented to understand whats learnt from each env...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

DWC: view more dependencies

In DWC 9.5 we want to see more levels of dependencies when clicking the Dependencies button. Currently we only see direct dependencies and it is not enough. Ideally, there would be an option to choose how many levels of dependencies we want to see...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration