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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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When creating a volume scaling policy I want to be able to easily select groups for the policies in the same way as the VM policies work.

Currently I have to use a regex expression to include all the groups that the policy applies to. This is highly inconvenient as every time I want to add a new group to the policy I have to construct a new regex expression.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Not under consideration

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

TADDM integration with Ansible

Need an integration between TADDM and Ansible to support discovery of target endpoints (both Linux and Windows servers) located behind a firewall in the DMZ. IBM had previously suggested the use of BigFix for this task, but BigFix is non-strategic...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Implement SCIM

Although Instana implements some SSO, it doesnt cover the full user lifecycle. We would like to see SCIM implemented so that users who fall out of scope of the SAML (in our case) application are also deleted in Instana. At the moment its a semi ma...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
almost 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Expose more metrics to the native Turbonomic dashboards that are available in the Embedded Reports

Exposing more of the metrics and filter available from the embedded reports through grafana to the native dashboards
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
9 months ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration

Remote Based Access Control (RBAC) for Log Analysis.

I have successfully implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for Log Analysis. The Log Analysis development team sent me instructions on how to implement in my Test environment. I would like to see the RBAC feature implemented in a future rele...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration