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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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Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
15 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
about 2 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
4 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Planned for future release

Inclusion of Azure Web App in drop down in Commitment Portfolio

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 2 Submitted

Instana observing MinIO Object Storage

MinIO’s enterprise class features represent the standard in the object storage space. Customer needs to have observability at this level, more detail in this: https://min.io/product/overview
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Future consideration

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted