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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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Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Cloudability for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

SAP Business Technology Platform is an innovation platform optimised for SAP applications in the cloud and a PaaS cloud computing service offered by SAP.More than 16,000 cloud customers are using BTP, and due to the Transformation to S/4HANA, more...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
6 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

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...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Traceroute Path Tool in LiveMaps | Point-to-Point discovery

We already have a traceroute tool in NMS, which is hardly used. If using the tool in DI Live Maps, you could create logical devices in a path and see which hops between sevone and the device are part of your monitoring. The concept is you would ha...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Alarm Grouping Strategy based on assigned weight to the alarms

Assign weights to alarms within each group. The alarm with the highest composite weight score in a group becomes the primary root cause candidate. Use key fields from this highest-weighted alarm (like resource type, component, error patterns) to c...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Webagent Limit reset - High Business Urgency

We logged an IBM case: TS017640803 for missing data on our website monitoring (EUM). We discovered 2 things that need attention and IBM requested that we load an aha-idea for resetting limits on the webagent. Currently, there is a limit on the pag...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0

GCP Cost not tally if not filter by Invoice Date/ID

GCP Cost numbers are not tally. Can't do monthly view as number will never be correct with GCP Native Billing
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

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 ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration