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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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Need to be able to add Dynamic Custom payloads to Alerts

Need to be able to add Dynamic custom payloads to an Alert. Currently, within Instana, you can add Dynamic custom payloads globally. But many parameters don't make sense to add globally. For example, I don't want to add an MQ Queue Name to a java ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

API Guide Enhancement

In meeting with a customer recently to help them troubleshoot API issues that they were telling us about, we asked if they had our API guide and they said that yes they had it, but it offered very little assistance and us introducing them to Swagg...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

API request url needs updating

In meeting with a customer recently to troubleshoot API issues he said he was having, we noticed something in Swagger that was failing. We realized that in the request URL, it had an old url string that needs to be updated. It lists /vmturbo/ wher...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Not under consideration

BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)

BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) looks like a great way to gain insights into routing changes within a network. RFC 7854 - BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) (ietf.org) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7854 OpenBMP · OpenBMP Documentation https://...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

In a Windows HA (High Available) environment, provide a mechanism to define FINAL Jobs and Job Streams on a virtual workstation that can be resolved to the active MDM

With the advent of Automatic Failover feature introduced in 9.5 FP02, FINAL can be defined on an Extended Agent and resolved to the active MDM. This results in turn key solution where no admin intervention is required. Unfortunately, this is made ...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

gRPC Support for Synthetic Endpoint Tests

As a customer, I want to use Instana Synthetic Test to monitor the availability for my gRPC Endpoints.
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

When exporting all Cloud Pending Actions from Actions Center, we would like to have the Resource ID (vendor ID from the entity information widget) included in the Export.

This would be extremely useful when reconciling cost data between Turbonomic and the AWS Billing console. Our FinOps Team and Budget Managers use data from both Turbonomic and AWS Billing Console to show the value of Turbonomic Recommended Actions.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Synthetics Tests granularity below 1 minute

As a customer, I want to ensure that my endpoints are available using Synthetics. Also, as a customer, I would like to have several measurements per minute to exclude temporary connectivity problems. A workaround would be to set up multiple tests ...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

alert when value has not changed

There are use cases where a device is malfunctioning or misreporting data which helps us determine there is a issue with the device. A symptom we would see is a device reporting the same number for minutes to hours where its normally a value/numbe...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

'Current Transfers' need to be searchable with full transfer ID

Currently the 'Current Transfers' (in the coordination queue manager dashboard, for MQ MFT) are only searchable by last 12 characters as it shows only the last 12 characters (...236505bdbd2d instead of 414d51204d4654352020202020202020c0e1236505bdb...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration