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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 poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Official support for OCVS(Oracle Cloud VMware Solution)

Now, we are doing PoV for OCVS (Oracle Cloud VMware Solution) in Toyota Systems,The configuration is exactly the same as IBM Cloud Baremetal(VMware), VMware Cloud on AWS, and Turbonomic can visualize supply chain and do resource optimization, incl...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to assign tags to an integration node

Currently, tags can only be assigned to a Host or to some specific sensors such as MQ. Customers have a need to use tags for filtering, thresholding, etc. using tags for other sensors. Specifically, this customer needs to be able to use tags on an...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Allow simultaneous execution of multiple actions per GCP VM

Currently there is a limitation in Turbonomic for any GCP actions that are multiple actions (not just volume actions) belonging to the same VM. They cannot be executed simultaneously, and they need to be executed one at a time. Allowing for multip...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Allow for managing VM-to-VM anti/affinity rules directly in Turbonomic

As a user I would like the ability to create/modify/delete VM-to-VM affinity/anti-affinity placement policies, so that I do not have to create/modify/delete these rules in vCenter.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Policies 3 Future consideration

Have the Policies tab always show the Consistent Resize scaling constraint and its value so that I can guarantee whether it is applied to a VM or group of VMs

When you navigate to a VM or group of VMs, I want to be able to see the value for Consistent Resize that is applied to each to confirm whether or not it is applied. Currently if it is not applied, the setting is not present. This way, there's an a...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Provide basic entity information in tabular format for VM group scope

As a large enterprise with almost 800 active-active groups consisting of over 6000 VMs, we frequently find ourselves in need of a flat-view pane of basic VM information for all members of any one group. At the least, for example, we'd like to see ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration