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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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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.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Need ways to customize logo for emails Instana sends

Dear colleagues, our customer has asked if we allow to add a custom logo into Instana email notification, would be nice to have that feature for all of on-premises environments. Please consider adding the option Thank you
29 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Action Script Server integration to capture details such as git repo etc in the UI

Action Script specific to each target account enables variables to be defined when setting up the target. The variables are passed to action script server and include details such as vault credentials, repo containing the code etc. Additional deta...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Make Stack and Up-/Downstream information visible for AWS ActiveMQ Server

Fill Instana Active MQ Monitoring Dashboard Button 'Stack' and 'Upstream/Downstream' Buttons
30 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

support on-prem SQL Server

currently on-prem SQL are not supported, but some of our customer still have on-prem SQL server
30 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Add "Cluster Tags" to VM group creation

Currently there is not a way to create VM groups based on its cluster tag. This feature would provide a great way to create dynamic groups based on something we can extract from vCenter from other use cases. For example, say I have a supercluster ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration