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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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Quantify Risk Across the Components (Clusters, VMs, Apps)

Today clients or service providers are not able to quantify the risk across the components of their enterprise due to the following challenges: Compliance is a complex process covering many security processes including but not limited to Patching,...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

Support to Monitor Oracle RAC

Hi, Instana currently doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC Instances either by Remote or Local configuration. Many cutsomers are having Oracle RAC Production Instances. Also Oracle monitoring is limited to configure OracleSID. Need to extend to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 10 Delivered

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Need support for Azure ebdsv5 and ebsv5 series

Turbonomic currently does not support Azure ebdsv5 and ebsv5 series. Customer is starting to request and use these as well as purchase RI's related to them. Here is Azure link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/ebdsv5-ebsv5-s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Delivered

Support for Custom VMs

GCP have a great feature that enable customers to change instance size for different types than regular family published size. This is considered as a custom VMs and can be used for IaaS and GKE clusters. Turbonomic still don't support this type, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Delivered

TADDM FP9 Supports Current DB2

TADDM 7.3.0.9 supports DB2 up to V11.5 GA, but this is already outdated. TADDM 7.3.0.9 needs to support the lates DB version 11.5 Fix Pack Mod 6 FP 0 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1102545#m6fp0
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

Mobile App metrics for Grafana plugin

Right now users are not able to get mobile app metrics from the Instana plugin in Grafana. This would be greatly appreciated to add this feature. We would like to be able to display mobile app data in Grafana for our business partners. Filtering o...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Real User Monitoring 5 Delivered

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Delivered