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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 possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add ability to pause target reporting

We have a password that changes and it takes a number of days to reset. In the time it takes update the password the targets try too many times and locks the new password. If we can pause the discovery of the target with a pause button this would ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Rightsizing Preferences - More exclusion instance type values

Currently we are able to add only 10 instance type values which is blocking us to exclude more instance type as per our organization standard. IBM cloudability team should allow client to provide more values and there should be dropdown available ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to the bottom of the Details Action page on volume actions. Currently it is inconsistent with other entity types like EC2, RDS, etc.

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the Action details page has a list of policies at the bottom of the proposed changes, so you can quickly see what's applied to it that is driving that recommendation. It would be handy to also see ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

SDP support for Azure Managed Identity authentication with Kafka-compatible interface to Azure Event Hub

For SDP (Kafka), SevOne does not currently support Azure Managed Identity directly for Azure Event Hub. Can we add this feature?
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Bus (DB) 0 Future consideration

Service Configuration

Exclude URL’s Mute requests (Still monitor request but don’t alert)
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Dynamic discovery of all Filesystems

We have observed that Instana agents auto discovers only local filesystems, for other filesystems we have to define them manually in the configuration yaml file which is tedious task and high chances of missing alerts for newly created filesystems...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration