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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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Additional Reserved Instance Recommendations - Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

SLO window size increase

Currently windows size for SLOs is 4 weeks. Considering data retention is 13 months it would make sense to be able to select your window size to any specific size within that period. This would allow to check SLOs and error budgets evolutions over...
about 2 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

GlassBox integration to see the Instana backend tracing correlated to the end user sessions recorded by GlassBox.

The customer want to understand better the beckend behavious starting from the GlassBox recorded sessions.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Under review

Capture utilization history for frequently redeployed workloads

As a user of Turbonomic I would like my workloads that I redeploy every 30 days, to have their utilization captured historically so that i can use more than 30 days of utilization data in scaling analysis.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Enterprise level support for target management. More information and downloads.

This was a request from a large customer with hundreds of targets. Some of which are labeled critical - even though they might still be working - and might just be delayed - can the reason for the CRTICAL be more easily found. ideally we can downl...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Vertical Node Scaling for Kubernetes Nodes on VM.

VM scaling is available for ESX infrastructure VMs, and disabled for any Kubernetes Node running on a VM. Would like to see vertical Node Scaling capability in situations that warrant it like masters and internal infrastructure Nodes that remain m...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

The Netflow Rules Manager needs to include a pop up or other UI based notification that changes to the rules will not take effect until after the existing flows are stopped external to SevOne

The Netflow Rules Manager needs to include a pop up or other UI based notification that changes to the rules will not take effect until after the existing flows are stopped external to SevOne
28 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Netflow Flow Interface Manager should include a warning that advises the customer all previously recorded netflow data for a given flow interface will be deleted when purging the flow interface.

Currently there is no warning the data will be lost.
28 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
28 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted