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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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Allow for managing VM-to-VM anti/affinity rules directly in Turbonomic

As a user I would like the ability to create/modify/delete VM-to-VM affinity/anti-affinity placement policies, so that I do not have to create/modify/delete these rules in vCenter.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Policies 3 Future consideration

Synthetic Data not available for dashboards

We are not able to create dashboard with synthetics data, use cases: * line graph of historical results of all synthetics in a specific location or by region for x range of days* see all failed synthetics for a pop location or for a region in a gi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration

I want the SNMP Working Yes/No filter to be real-time - not based on the last successful discovery

When I set the SNMP Yes / Working No filter, I expect the result to be accurate - not based on the result of the last successful discovery. I should not have to manually check the results of the filter to see if they accurate.
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Plot historical percentile values in "Prove It" UI when actions are taken

Today, using VM resize actions as an example, we only show the percentile value based on the current capacity of the resource. When customers take an action to either resize up or resize down to bring the percentile back into its desired state, th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Flutter Multiple Backend Configuration

Currently, Instana flutter agent (and mobile app in general) only support sending monitoring data to a single backend. For customer with high availability active-active setup, sending data to 1 backend will definitely impact the data availability....
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

A list of all Data Insight Report and Maps owners should be a feature for DI admins, to export, in tabular format

DI users have requested that a Data Insight administrator user should be able to export a list of reports and maps. Several support tickets have been opened for this. It is possible to generate a list of reports with owners on the DI backend. Ther...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
10 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Future consideration