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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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Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Device Groups in the Metadata widget: If the source group has child groups, have an option to list only the child groups. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the device groups within the selected Parent.

It would allow the widget to display device groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

Extend AIOPS Vmware VCenter Observer to support merging of VM resources with VM resources coming from Instana Observer

Currently VMware vCenter Observer build the VM resource in AIOPS/Toplogy Manager where its name property is set to a value that we can not use to merge the same VM resource observed and populated in Topology manager by Instana Observer. Hence we n...
29 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

The "Task" should be customizable in process defintion

As all other term in the process definiton the task should also be customizable. As all other workitems it should be possible to give it in a process another term. Now the term "Task" will be translated according to your language settings, which c...
29 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

API of Tracing

When a service or endpoint alarm occurs, we need to obtain the corresponding trace details through the API, but currently Instana does not have this API. Traversing all traces is time-consuming. It is recommended to add this API
30 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Record and preserve all data points in the Actions Executed log

Looking at the Executed Actions - Succeeded widget on the Action Impact & Savings dashboard, download the report. The issue is that in auditing groups of historical actions, it appears some of them are missing the volume and/or target IDs that...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Under review