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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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Limit what files are copied per pod by instana-instrumentation-init

The typical duration of instana-instrumentation-init is 2 seconds. This becomes an issue during node consolidation and when pods are moved to a new node. I’ve analysed the reason for this slow performance, and it is likely due to the init containe...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

DWC Sharing boards with groups

Users can create custom boards which are useful to display multiple queries at once, but currently these boards can be shared only among DWC roles, which are very large scopes. It would be usefull if one can share his custom board among users belo...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

we need feature to select alerts and export them to excel file

When we have several alerts on the same device or location we generate a report/excel file with all the related alerts and attach it to the Remedy Incident. Right now we have to do it manually. So we need feature to select alerts and export them t...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for MSSQL instances

Currently, any multi-tenant setup on SQL (aka SQL Instances) is not supported. The request is to add support - and the ideal solution would be to allow Turbo to enumerate all SQL instances via the SQL Server Browsing service.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Functionality already exists

New filter - Savings/Investments less or more than xxx

It would be helpful insert a new filter in Turbonomic actions UI to find savings or investments in a specific range or less/more than a specific value.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Functionality already exists

we want to be able specify for Turbonomic to make recommendations on certain workloads based on more than a months data

we want to be able specify for Turbonomic to make recommendations on certain workloads based on more than a months data ie 2 months + so we can have more consistent lower usage from resources versus capacity
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Functionality already exists

Allow label mapping in analytics or custom dashboards

Example use: Visualizaton of kubernetes metrics e.g. for resource_limits
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Functionality already exists

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Event rules to be exported and imported.

This would be great for DEV and PROD systems. If I add many event rules for testing on DEV it would be great to be able to export them and import them into the PROD server.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 4 Functionality already exists