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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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Add the ability to click out of an "x-able" box by clicking in a greyed out part of the window

It'd be nice ux for you to be able to click in any of the grey areas and it'll close out the window you had open. the x still exists as another option to click out of a config window. if there are changes when a user clicks out of the window, then...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

ThoughtSpot maintenance should be performed outside of working hours.

On the top page of ThoughtSpot, there is an announcement that "ThoughtSpot service will be unavailable from 10 11 2023 4:00 UTC to 10 11 2023 8:00 UTC due to maintenance".This is from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Japan time, which is during working hours. Ple...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, able to see Splunk applications through the Instana Portal.

We want monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application in the Instana application perspective. As per the IBM support, there is no support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, you will not be able to see any Splunk hosts or ...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

True additive group scopes

Currently the group membership model is complicated, and counter-intuititve. If Group A is Access all, and Group B is no access to -say- Infrastructure, a user joining Group A would have full access. If they were to later join Group B, they would ...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under 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

Turbonomic on EKS with Turbonomic provided ingress and TLS termination at Load Balancer - Documentation is incomplete/inaccurate

Scenario: Customer is deploying Turbonomic platform on EKS cluster with Turbonomic provided nginx ingress. It needs to terminate TLS at the ELB. Issue with Documentation: The provided documentation at "https://github.com/turbonomic/t8c-install/wik...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 5 Not under consideration

Hitachi Storage target support required for Turbonomic

We have received a request from IAG (Insurance Australia Group) to reinstate the support of monitoring Hitachi Storage through Turbonomic because it is IAG's core on-premise storage. IAG is in phase of adapting Turbonomic ARM across the organisati...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration