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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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Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Support parking for Aurora DB instances

Today, Turbonomic only support the parking of regular RDS instances. We should cover all Aurora instance as well, since it's heavily used by AWS shops.
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Allow insert limit in Park override

Today if a user override a parket VM, they can choose between a end date or a number of hours. But someone with bad intentions can override for 1 year or 999 hours for instance. The admin should have a way to put limit on each override, like 2 hou...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Smart Alert - grouping/summary/templates

A function of other APMs that I've used is the concepts of summaries and group alert copy or alert templates. Summaries - In cases, when memory, CPU and or filesystems alert they do so together which is a single event. With a summary structure, wh...
29 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
29 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
29 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
29 days ago in Instana / Alert 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

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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