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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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Create baselines based of netflow data

The specific ask from the customer is the ability to learn normal behaviour (and alert when there is an anomaly) of the IP flows going through the network (source IP, dest IP and application). This is a specific use case, but it would be great if ...
12 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 0 Future consideration

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Azure Sql Db scaling shouldn't only consider DTUS but also IOPS

This customer has an application which is very sensitive to IOPS. They specifically chose Premium Tier DTU , as it has MUCH more IOPS. >25 IOPS per DTU vs 1-4 IOPS per DTU. So when Turbonomic sees the DTU usage (which is a combination of CPU/ME...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Gamify Savings in Turbonomic to encourage competition.

Some of the biggest hurdles in achieving efficiency savings in Turbonomic is competing priorities. Some of the successes at companies to achieve Turbo driven savings, is to create a competitive game between departments and/or app teams on savings....
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

We are requesting that the DWC time field support the more conventional 12:00 - 12:59 AM/PM and/or 24 hour clock value.

An inconsistency was discovered in the DWC Workload Designer that impacts time fields, such as Earliest Start, Latest Start, Deadline, etc. We are unable to specify any value between 12:01 and 12:59, whether AM or PM. Specifying 12:00 is allowed. ...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The customer would like the ability to create an "Actions" widget in their dashboard to showcase the action executed for a particular business unit. We created groups for these business units in Turbo based on customer tags but that scope is not supported in the "Actions" widget

Being able to showcase actions executed on the basis of a business group would allow for more friendly competition within departments to get a "better turbo score" and track their individual teams progress.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration