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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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Lower the size of the .ova hard drive

When importing the .ova the machine disk is 1,75Tib. Even if all this space is not used up thanks to thin provisioning, it is still a bad practice to over-provision that much storage. In our case the thinning of the space is done on the storage ba...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
about 2 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Future consideration

IWS Agent installation on Rocky Linux

would be better if IBM supports IWS agent installation on Rocky Linux.
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
6 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Enhancements needed to ServiceNow ticketing integration

The servicenow integration for ticketing needs to be able to populate Confiugration Item (CI). This is a required field in our environment and is used to define incident queue routing. Additionally, we should write to the staging table rather than...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
8 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Future consideration

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

we can create a report for any Mon-Fri dates, but we cannot isolate the timing to only show 9a-5p only.

End customer is interested in seeing business hour only on reporting
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Functionality already exists

Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration