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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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Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Add Resources in Join Dependencies - IWA 10.1

Hello We are using IWA 10.1 and want to create JST using more than 40 resources. The composer add command returns the message AWSJOM138E The dependencies defined for job or job stream "******GVC010VERA" are incorrect because they would give a tota...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

AIOps license utilisation in UI

Customers need to see the AIOps license utilisation, number of managed devices, client devices, and logs processed in GB. This will help customer for budgeting next yeat license purchase.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

CPU scaling on vCPU not MHz

As I know Turbonomic is scaling vCPU based on the MHZ or GHz config of the underlying physical Host. The problem with this is that we have some virtual machine groups with „consistent resizing“ but Turbonomic has actions for one vm to increase vCP...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Under review

Visibility of Historic Recommendations

I'd like to be able to see the historic recommendations for a volume or VM. As the resource performance changes Turbo will be making recommendations and changing them and its this history that I want to be able to see. Some of our VMs are cyclical...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2

Consistent Resizing for Storage

Extend the concept of consistent sizing for grouped servers to storage on the grouped servers. For instance, if i have servers in a cluster or servers that have been grouped together via tagging and rule, if there is a recommendation for storage, ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration

Enhance AIOps-AWS Observer access to Role based tied when underlying AIOps platform is AWS.

having close to 900 accounts to discover and manage, we would require a single IAM access key and this would be needed if we were to move to AWS.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enhance AIOps-AWS Observer to use single IAM user to gather data from multiple EC2 instances tied to a single Application

we have hundreds of accounts, and require key rotation. having to manage so many tokens is impossible.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
3 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0 Under review