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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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Add Required Investment to Top Accounts Widget Download

When you download from the Top Accounts widget, Potential Savings are part of the export, but the Required Investments are not included. This skews the data and could lead our clients who use this report to conclude that investments are less impor...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Delivered

When exporting data from unattached volumes, provide the data of the last attached VM as one of the exported fields.

When exporting data from unattached volumes, provide the data of the last attached VM as one of the exported fields. That data will allow for additional validation of if a VM is still active (and perhaps the user is using attaching/unattaching dis...

Support AWS Cloudfront

Hello, Would it be possible to monitor AWS Cloudfront services in Instana ? Regards, Quentin
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Include utilization data in the Action that Turbonomic send to ServiceNow

We need to show justification on the Action submitted to ServiceNow by Turbonomic. e.g. for VM resize Action ....we will need to be able to capture (on the SNOW ticket) the utilization data of the VM (current utilization AND the predicted utilizat...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 4 Delivered

Add time shift comparison on a weekly base

Update: I've just seen this is already implented :) Dear Instana Devs and POs, We really like the newly introduced "Time Shift" feature of Instana. However, for our use cases, the options "Previous Timeframe" and "Yesterday" are often not sufficie...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
over 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Delivered

Add Storage Cluster Filter to Create VM Groups

Create VM groups using a storage cluster filter. Customer wants to move VMs from storage cluster A to storage cluster B. VM groups are needed for the place and do not place policies.

PATCH method in the Restful plugin

We need PATCH method to be included in the IWA restful plugin for partial update to the resource. The current plugin does not support the Patch method.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Support for monitoring IBM Informix

Instana do not have support IBM Informix database monitoring. I suggest to add support.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

Update Android Client of Instana - So it will work with upcoming Gradle 8.0

Can you pls make the Android client Gradle 8.0 compatible? Error from Gradle (Android Studio build): API 'android.registerTransform' is obsolete. It will be removed in version 8.0 of the Android Gradle plugin. The Transform API is removed to im...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Delivered