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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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Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts (Latest feedback from https://automati...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

VMware CPU&Memory Limit value adjusting for optimization

Recently, Turbonomic supported to configure hot-add parameter on VMware VM configuration. Customer hope to do configuration also CPU&Memory Limit value by Turbononmic for optimization in the case Limit value configured on VMware VM (vCenter's ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Functionality already exists

Utilization metrics not appearing for Azure subscriptions

The Azure util data is not supported currently and hence the issue and we would like to know if you have planed a timeline to enable these for Azure Utilization metrics.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Functionality already exists

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Record a ticket number for DWC plan actions like DB

Can you please add a feature to add an option in DWC to make DWC user to prompt for a ticket a mandatory field while taking any action in plan like rerun, submit, cancel etc. I see multiple users take wrong Plan actions in DWC, its better to recor...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Role Visibility By Product

Currently, when assigning a role in Frontdoor, it displays roles from all IBM products, which causes confusion during the assignment process. Ideally, if roles are assigned within Cloudability, it should only show the roles that have permissions f...
5 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 2 Functionality already exists

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

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