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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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Instana events do not support adding more than five metric conditions.

Some of the situations in my customers data is comprised of more than five conditions that Instana do not support today.I am working on ITM2Instana modernisation offering and we need to transform customer's ITM data into Instana e-g, situation (ev...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / MQ 0 Not under consideration

Enable filtering by role to work when verifying console integration

In the NOI hybrid deployment, NOI configures automatically some console integrations in WebGUI.In the current design, the console integrations are verified at user login, even if the role settings prevent the login user from accessing those consol...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Under review

Ability to get the volume of purchased licences through Instana API

Hello, Currently, I' m able to get the number of active apmhost and infrahost per day with the api endpoint : /api/instana/usage/hosts/{day}/{month}/{year} ############# Usage : https://xxxxxxxxxxx.instana.io ############# [{'time': 1724544000000,...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add support for multiple billing accounts per cloud provider

We are trying to add 2 AWS master billing accounts to Turbo and found out that Turbo does not support that configuration. We are also trying to add 2 Azure EA's and that is not supported either. We need Turbo to support multiple billing accounts p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Planned for future release