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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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GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Under review

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 7

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

DLA - Cross-Domain - genmore option

The fix provided through the idea "Include the cross-domain topology in the ncp_dla exported file idea" (https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TNMGR-I-175 and case TS014214371) includes cross-domain links but does not support the genmore option. In the XML ...
24 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Support of one time import of CUR files etc. from AWS Billing Account

In large organisations, specifically in heavily regulated industries, integration from PoC or development environments to production accounts is not possible. The AWS billing account is main account and a production account. However, where turbono...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Add VERSA objects for Upstream and Downstream capacity %

Unlike VIPTELA, up to this point VERSA has not provided Upstream/Downstream capacity %. This is now available: https://docs.versa-networks.com/Management_and_Orchestration/Versa_Analytics/Versa_Analytics_Log_Collector_Log_Types/WAN_Interface_Utili...
5 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 8 Planned for future release