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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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Provide a metric that shows actual usage of Azure disk drives along with allocated space.

Azure provides an ability to conduct a dynamic life resizing upward on disk drives, but not decrease in size. All current products and the Azure Portal will only show allocated drive space. We are unable to accurately determine if we over commit o...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
almost 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Planned for future release

Warning Message for +5m rows in cldy_monthly_aws and cldy_monthly_azure

Hi, It would be great to include a warning message for big cloud bill loads into A1, to advise things to check to slim down this dataset. So for example: Resource Level information should not be includedUsage Date should not be includedItem Descri...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Other / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Planned for future release

Able to Create alerts/Incidents from Syslogs ingested for log anomaly detection

Consider exploring the possibility of applying incident policies or rules to create incidents/alerts once syslogs are ingested for log anomaly detection, similar to how we manage alerts. This could expand the functionality beyond just log anomaly ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Avoid duplicating work to submit Ideas for items already told to TAM

Even though we meet with and have an established relationship with IBM for multiple products with TAM. Share our current roadmap and needs many times. But are instead told, must open idea on website. And IBM is telling us to open an idea on the IB...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners with UI or API

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners? There is no indicator, that I’m aware of, for who created the view and this is an issue we would like to avoid in the future.
11 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Use traditional Netcool OMNIbus icon in Connectors

Netcool is a legend! Give credit to its history and give us back our beloved Netcool OMNIbus icon. The large user base will be pleased and grateful.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 0 Future consideration