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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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Events (Syslog and SNMP Traps) parsing tool - Drag & Drop Capabilities

Why is it useful? Existing and new customers spend a lot of time doing the parsing of events received by generic probes (as syslog, snmp, glf, etc) since those include a generic rules file. However, most of them have custom Object Servers Columns ...
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Log message body information sent via OpenTelemetry

Forwarding Golang and Nodejs application logs which are deployed in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to Instana agent or Instana backend via fluentbit using OpenTelemetry exporter
11 months ago in Instana / Logging 7 Not under consideration

Probe to connect to mailbox using Graph API

We have a requirement to monitor the mailbox and generate the alert. As per the current Probe functionality it only supports Microsoft EWS API to connect to mailbox. Barclays does not support EWS any more, it only supports Graph API. Also EWS is g...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic uses APIs. We can contribute to Azure API throttling. How do we manage and minimize this impact.

Many clients have multiple applications using API calls in Azure Subscriptions. Security Apps, Compliance Apps, APMS (like Dynatrace) , Terraform, and our IBM apps - Turbonomic ARM and parkmycloud (PMC). Whilst Turbonomic may not be the main consu...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3

On the Application Dashboard, Provide Total Wait (Latency x Calls) in the dashboards. This would definitely could be added to the top services widget.

The App Dashboard doesn't really let you know what is the busiest service or endpoint that has the most wait. The calls let you know it's busy, but you don't know if it's a problem because it could be a really fast cached call. The latency is good...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Allow choose direction of action for Container Platform Plans

If you plan a Container Platform Cluster optimization, it only permit choose scale or not. If it's possible to pick just resize down container spec and/or resize up, users will know the difference between actions. This is aligned with: https://ide...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Variable drop down at the top of a report should be assignable to effect specific widgets or all but a specific widget on the report.

Functionality exists in competing product Grafana, which GTS is trying to migrate from to SevOne-Data Insight. Customer needs the variable drop downs on a report to effect all sections but then when a second variable drop down is selected that sec...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Data Retention after Out of Memory error.

IBM Support Ticket TS014348006 describes a scenario where data in Instana is removed after a JVM on a host suffers an Out of Memory error. We can understand why data would not be available from the time of the error and until service is restored, ...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

The capacity values are different from temporarily created groups (by Turbonomic) VS groups created by users

This Idea is being raised from the bug ticket opened in Turbonomic JIRA- https://jsw.ibm.com/browse/TRB-52963. This bug came up from JPMC. For example, there are a total of 8 hosts in the entire environment, the capacity of memory is only 3 TB/hos...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Synthetics tests versioning

It would be great to automatically version Synthetic tests, so that users can scroll, see changes, and if necessary revert to older versions of tests and their configuration
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration