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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 support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Expand Cost Transparency Column Filtering Double Pipe Character

·    Who is the user or role?  Anyone using CT to view data in a screen, wanting to use a double-pipe character in the column filter, as well as other column filters.  At current, no other column filters can be used at t...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Unique identifier to report names

The only unique identifier for a report is its name. This makes referring to in (in the discussion, feedback, etc) confusing and difficult. It also means that user organizations cannot create similar reports with the same name as OOTB reports. Sug...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

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...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Customer would like to show router redundancy per device in either a tab or a Network View

Customer is on ITNM 4.2 FP14 and would like to have the "show router redundancy" per device either in a tab or in a Network View.
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future 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

Version Controlling in Omnibus WebGUI Filters and Views

We need to have a version controlling for the Omnibus WebGUI Filters and Views, so that we could track who is changing them. Also if we could implement version controlling like Netcool/Impact it will be easy enough for whole WebGUI.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

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
11 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration