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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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System Capacity filter

Previously I can setup filesystem capacity event alert with "entity.host.filesystems.fs.name" filter under scope. Unfortunately this filter has been obsoleted and Instana introduced NO alternative solution to this. Instana support advised to confi...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

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, ...
12 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...
12 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
12 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Compression Plugin allow for wild cards when identifying files for archive

It seems as of now you need to specifically identify each file you want to add to an archive when using the File Compression Plugin with Workload Schedulers. https://yourautomationhub.io/detail/compression We have many cases where the file has the...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Track new IaaS and DBaaS families releases and support them faster

Vendors are updating their instance families almost a year ago and we are not supporting yet in Turbonomic. As example: Standard_B8als_v2, Standard_B16ls_v2, Standard_B8ls_v2 from Azure.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0

Enhance Synthetic smart alert to support multiple tests failure to generate a single event

Enhance Synthetic smart alert to support multiple tests failure to generate a single event. Slack Thread : https://ibm-security.slack.com/archives/C03PE83TQ59/p1717529847084299
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

SNMPv3 Engine ID changes

Incorporate the SNMPv3 engine id CHANGE natively within the product
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Optimize Load time for dependencies/Flow tab under application perspectives

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down and historical in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under 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...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration