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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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It will be good to know the licence consumption in Turbonomic ie windows, linux, dbs etc

It will be good to know the licence consumption in Turbonomic ie windows, linux, dbs etc for better analysis
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Not under consideration

AWS SQS 2.1.x / Spring Kafka >= 3.1 / Apache Kafka Clients 3.3.x not supported by Instana Java Sensor

One of our teams found out that a lot of framework support in the instana JVM sensor is outdated. Our teams using Kafka and Aws can not use instana at the moment for monitoring their services, since the traces with those frameworks:- AWS SDK 2.x--...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2

Memory profiles are absent from .NetCore applications

We have only cpu profiles and there is no memory profiles available for dotNetCore applications. Can you please add them to have full profiling of dotNetCore applications.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

installation improvement for LDAP

Today we solved the ldap authentication problem. It was due to a conflict of two users with the same username in two different user repositories: basic and LDAP. Since there is no more a local user repository in Liberty a copy of your real install...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana Mode set as IQM not be defaulted back to APM on machine reboot

We were doing our monthly patching on mongo machines where the Instana mode was showing as IQM in GUI of Instana and on the machine console as well.[ec2-user@mng3~]$ sudo cat /opt/instana/agent/etc/instana/com.instana.agent.main.config.Agent.cfg# ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Is a defect

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

autoprofile support for aarch64

There are a lot of customers using aarch64 infrastructure. but now autoprofile seems only support x64.
about 2 years ago in Instana 3 Planned for future release

Define which Asset Classes are available for new plans, and which legacy

My organisation has changed the useful life of software assets from 5 years to 3 years, but the class is still the same. As a Budget Process Owner, I have to show the expected depreciation of 5 year assets from my asset register. However, I also n...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

To be able to change Scaling Target VMEM Utilization for On-Premises

Currently, almost all of my SQL Servers are considered to not have enough memory according to Turbonomic as it appears to want 70% free memory. This was told to me by support. This threshold is way above what VMware and Microsoft consider to be be...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Increase the 256 byte limit of the Situation Take Action command string length.

Reflex situations (Take Action tab) can benefit from not having to manage, maintain and distribute scripts to servers across the estate as they are centrally managed vi the TEP client or CLI. Powerful shell automation logic can be achieved by stri...
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration