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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 monitor .NET Core without compiling application with nuget

Almost every customer we meet both new and current uses a mix of .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. Our biggest concern is that almost all applications written for .Net Core is developed outside the customer and they have no control over t...
6 months ago in Instana / .NET 0

Kong monitoring with all the metrics!!

As on today, Kong is available for monitoring through instana, but with limited metrics on which we can put alerting. Below metrics are not available for alert metric to be setup as event. Since it is not completely available, we are not able to p...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration

Validate deployment on Nutanix

Customers are looking at Nutanix as an alternative to Broadcom/VMware. This requrest is to support deploying SevOne NPM on Nutanix virtualization.
5 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Future consideration

Data Insight Widget - Alert Profile (Addition to Alert Details and Alert Summary Widgets)

Most Monitoring Tools have a dedicated way to tell the end user what polices your device will trigger on. We are looking for a widget that would define all applicable policies to a device. This widget would require you to select a device variable,...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Please add the Workstations Status code on DWC Listing workstations. eg MDM (IJ MDEA) or FTA (LTI JW MD) BMDM (LTI JW MD A)

quick and easy view to see if the workstations have not got their correct status codes. Also we know where the EventProcessor is , without clicking multiply times to discover it. (simple GUI)
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration