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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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Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
2 days ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Submitted

Turbonomic - Develop Official Support for AWS Outposts

Customers are increasingly using AWS Outposts within their IT infrastructure. Despite being unsupported, customers who are able to target these instances via VPC subnetting are required to add to their MVS count for licensing. We have a current IB...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 4 Submitted

Monitoring Microsoft Hyper-V

We must be able to monitor Microsoft Hyper-V.
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Enable a mobile application to extend monitoring and observability functions beyond the desktop.

Clients want to view their applications and infrastructure from their smartphones on Android or iOS.
8 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

GitOps integration: support for bitbucket+ArgoCD

We are starting a Turbonomic deployment in Intesa Sanpaolo; they asked for integration with their GitOps process to apply changes in RHOCP clusters; Turbonomic actions related to RHOCP target should be applied to their bitbucket repository instead...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Under review

Terraform Support for Turbonomic

Why is it useful? Enables customers to manage Turbonomic with policy-as-code capabilities Enables customers recreate policies in the event of a disaster within Turbonomic (redeploy capabilities) Enables customer to reduce risk following software d...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 3 Submitted

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
8 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Ability to download Instana agents in Air-gapped Self hosted Standard Edition (K3S)

As of v287, the agent download fails in the self-hosted air-gapped standard edition. The only way is to go to internet and pull the latest agents for Instana agent repository OR mirror the repository to local environment. Given the access restrict...
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

New KPI/Filter - Lamda/Fargate Workload Coverage $

Initial response from our account team: "I don’t believe we break it out by service, so CLDY would be the best bet". We would like for a KPI/Filter to be created, so we don't have to manually figure out. Under RI Utilization, you are able to filte...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted