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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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Enable a mobile application to extend monitoring and observability functions beyond the desktop.

Clients want to view their applications and infrastructure from their smartphones on Android or iOS.
14 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
14 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Turbonomic - Develop Official Support for AWS Outposts

Customers are increasingly using AWS Outposts within their IT infrastructure. Despite being unsupported, customers who are able to target these instances via VPC subnetting are required to add to their MVS count for licensing. We have a current IB...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 4 Submitted

1. Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email Reports & 2. Ensure Full Feature Parity Between Data Insight and NMS Reports

Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email ReportsIntroduce the option to include raw data in CSV format as an attachment when generating and sending email reports through Data Insight. This feature is already available in NMS (vPAS) but is currently ab...
19 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Terraform Support for Turbonomic

Why is it useful? Enables customers to manage Turbonomic with policy-as-code capabilities Enables customers recreate policies in the event of a disaster within Turbonomic (redeploy capabilities) Enables customer to reduce risk following software d...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 3 Submitted

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
14 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
9 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Submitted

Allow admins to create popup for users to see and use to provide feedback when they log into Apptio

We have hundreds of Apptio users in our organisation and are interested in getting their feedback about their experience using Apptio however it is not practical to reach out to all of them individually. It would be great if we could create up a p...
9 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Under review

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
14 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted