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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 ways to customize logo for emails Instana sends

Dear colleagues, our customer has asked if we allow to add a custom logo into Instana email notification, would be nice to have that feature for all of on-premises environments. Please consider adding the option Thank you
14 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Action Script Server integration to capture details such as git repo etc in the UI

Action Script specific to each target account enables variables to be defined when setting up the target. The variables are passed to action script server and include details such as vault credentials, repo containing the code etc. Additional deta...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Make Stack and Up-/Downstream information visible for AWS ActiveMQ Server

Fill Instana Active MQ Monitoring Dashboard Button 'Stack' and 'Upstream/Downstream' Buttons
15 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
15 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

support on-prem SQL Server

currently on-prem SQL are not supported, but some of our customer still have on-prem SQL server
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
29 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Set the default location to the same page when copying a visualisation

When copying a page in Apptio BI, the default page is the next page. To copy to the same page you need to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list to select 'Current Page'. I would like the 'Current Page' to be the first item in the list, maki...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

It would be desirable if multiple currencies could be handled by one Turbonomic

Currently, only one currency symbol can be set, so if AWS (USD) and Azure (Yen) are mixed, it will be confusing. Each time, we create a group just for AWS and refer to that dashboard, which is cumbersome.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Bulk Create IAM Roles and add as Targets when adding a Master Billing account

Turbonomic supports ingesting AWS data from already created IAM Role/Users for specific AWS Accounts. This is great for 1 or 2 AWS accounts, but for customers who have 100s of AWS accounts, this can be very tedious. I am aware AWS allows their use...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration