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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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Update ITM Situation Forwarder

hasn't been updated since 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0003 and its functionality depends on a 32-bit version of libnsl, which has been dropped in newer versions of Operating Systems, e.g. SLES 15, RHEL 8.Thus, (ITM Situation Forwarder) stops to work when OS...
4 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

Support boards with many-to-many relations for vertical and horizontal lines

Customers who wants to create certain boars, however values many to many are unavailable if other lane has also many-to-many relations - for example Period and Teams - then 2 boards needs to be created

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM

Loop prevention between JOBSTREAMs in the current plan on IWS MDM The subject of the development request concerns the detection of loops on the current plan of IWS MDM Linux in the Forcast process and the blocking of the calculation of the curr...
7 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
7 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

We want to restrict volume changes to ONLY performance and not efficiency.

The customer has a DR environment with lots of volumes. Turbo is recommending downsizes that the customer doesn't want. Right now Turbo policy has an option Prefer Savings Over Reversibility. But unlike VM policy we can't restrict changes to just ...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Submitted

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
5 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted