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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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Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Export Alerts and Incidents through one or more kafka channel/topic(s)

To continuously be able to export alerts and incidents to external systems, an export mechanism based on kafka is suggested.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Locate Dependency Loops in DWC(Show Plan View)

This makes Dependency Loops graphically visible in the Show Plan View option
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Instana EKS Fargate support

Please support AWS EKS fargate. Instana is the best solution for cloud native environment monitoring. Considering it, EKS fargate need to be supported, because if user is focusing cloud native, then EKS fargate is in their target list. BP NSSOL th...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / Tracing 6 Future consideration

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