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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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Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
25 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

support for aws china region and azure china region

csm is proposing Turbonomic to customer MCDONALDS-CN together with seller and tech sales team. customer is satisfied with the POC result against their VMware and K8S environment, wish Turbonomic can support their public cloud providers(Azure China...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

AIOps Multi-Tenancy Support is crucial for the business expansion

Currently, Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps does not support Multi-Tenancy feature. It's crucial for IBM AIOps to support Multi-Tenancy for AIOps business expansion. There are two concepts of Multi-Tenancy in AIOps at the moment.The first is for separat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Keep Instana data in an isolated volume

I attempted to set up the Instana Docker backend by integrating an EFS storage solution, which I mounted to the /mnt directory. However, the installation process did not complete and became stuck at the "migrate-data" phase. Following this, I enco...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Storage 0 Under review

Include date in projected end timestamp for schedules

If you set an end time of 1464 hours later, for example, you'll get a message like: Occurs once effective Tue, Aug 20, 2024 starting at 14:00 and finishing 61 days later at 14:00. This idea is for including a timestamp at the end time: Occurs once...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

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

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

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release