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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 Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Include date in projected end timestamp for schedules

If you set an end time of 1464 hours later, for example, you'll get a message like: Occurs once effective Tue, Aug 20, 2024 starting at 14:00 and finishing 61 days later at 14:00. This idea is for including a timestamp at the end time: Occurs once...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

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

Improvement of Display Contents for UNDO Tablespace Usage

The status of the extents in the UNDO tablespace is listed as follows on DBA_UNDO_EXTENTS (oracle.com) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16338_01/server.112/b56311/statviews_5078.htm: ACTIVE EXPIRED UNEXPIRED However, according to information from Oracl...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Support Webex Teams for AIOPS ChatOps

ChatOps would introduce a new way to collaborate that is one of the most important modernizations expected for this customer Operation
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

way to have TWSINST not start the Agent after it finishes

we like to control where the Agent runs on the AS400 iseries platform
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for GitLab integration

We are working with our business partners for Concert Proof of concepts/values. One of our partners (TCS) is looking for GitLab integration. GitLab is one of the key systems that many of their customers use. This integration is required to demonst...
about 1 month ago in Concert 0 Planned for future release