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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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Add Network Diagram type functionality to Maps visualizations

Customer is requesting, in addition to the "canvas" and "maps" type of visualization for map device/object data and metrics, to add a network diagram type visualization with the ability to use standard icons for network elements (Routers/Switches ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Visibility of Historic Recommendations

I'd like to be able to see the historic recommendations for a volume or VM. As the resource performance changes Turbo will be making recommendations and changing them and its this history that I want to be able to see. Some of our VMs are cyclical...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for multiple proxy servers in the agent configuration

The ability to configure and use multiple proxy servers, which can enhance network flexibility, redundancy, and HA.
29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
29 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
29 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration