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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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The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Add features suitable for multi-tenant usage. Ex) Creating templates for user groups

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Add features suitable for multi-tenant usage. Ex) Creating templates for user groups Question by IBM team.------------------------- Please provide examples and desired outcome. I want to...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Make the metrics for "max_metrics_reached" with the limit accessible for alerts

We hit the "max_metrics_reached" on one of our tenants on an agent and we had to reach out to support (TSo17688362) for assistance. Support requested a metric limit increase, which removed the message and allowed the agent to capture more metrics ...
16 days ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Add more info for the display of "No Data Available" to distinguish whether data is unavailable or there is no data.

For example, with"Nesessary Investment" widget, if there is none of Investment related actions, it shows "No Data Available"....but it should be showing as "No proposal" ... I would like to be able to distinguish between them. (Data should be avai...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Enable each dashboard owner to determine who can access to it to limit access.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable each dashboard owner to determine who can access to it to limit access. Question by IBM team.------------------------- Valid RBAC request. Have you seen our new SaaS reporting opt...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Producing the API call so someone can take the API call, modify it then execute it themselves.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------------------------------------------ Output the execution command of the API running by "EXCUTE ACTION“ for needs of manual modification. Question by IBM tema.-----------------------------...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 2 Not under consideration

I wanted to get access to two or more turbonomic roles with different access scope to be used at the same time with different roles.

I wanted to get access to two or more turbonomic roles with different access scope to be used at the same time. Our setup uses external authentication provider to get access to turbo SaaS application. For example, i have observer role configured w...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Not under consideration

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective. Since Instana views active VMs differently in the application perspective not all VMs show up and then does not populate to Turbonomic. But in Instana Infrastruc...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

IBM SevOne NMS upgrades should allow for limit or throttling of ssh connections

During a production upgrade for IBM SevOne NMS, a Palo Alto Networks firewall adaptive security policy automatically blocked traffic between IBM SevOne NPM peers due to excessive network traffic on TCP port 22. SevOne NPM uses Ansible to perform c...
21 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration