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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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Oracle DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs

Oracle DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs
5 months ago in Instana / Automation 1 Future consideration

Oracle DB Sensor - Show Disk Used Percentage

Oracle DB Sensor - Show Disk Used Percentage
5 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Planned for future release

Oracle DB Sensor - Generate Built-In Event for User Locks

Oracle DB Sensor - Generate Built-In Event for User Locks
5 months ago in Instana / Automation / Sensor 1 Future consideration

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Make action execution limits a per-target configuration via UI

Today, we can limit concurrent actions as one line in the yaml. This setting applies to all targets and is only adjustable via command line. This idea is to allow for us to modify this setting on a per-target level and through the UI. Additionally...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Not under consideration

Identify layouts used by users

Can there be something built to identify public layouts that are used by users, this would mean we can easily remove layouts that are no longer in use. There is no function to identify this currently. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Data Insight Maps : Support for multiple data sources in the same Map.

Larger customers have their network performance data collected and stored using multiple NMS Clusters. It would be deeply beneficial to support adding nodes/paths to a DI Map that represent devices/objects managed across multiple NMS Clusters. Thi...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Provide a way to disable side car action creation

Today, Turbonomic create automatically groups for sidecar workloads and a policy with recommend only actions. Since Turbonomic can't apply those changes, it's just informational. The problem is customer has thousands of actions that is polluting t...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Implement Agent Request Buffering to Prevent Metric Outages

Dear Instana Product Team, I would like to propose the implementation of a request buffering mechanism within the Instana agent to mitigate and avoid metric outages during periods of network instability or high latency. Problem Statement Currently...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration