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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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PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
9 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Support CISCO Intersight as Target

CISCO is moving customer away from the legacy UCS Manager solution to their InterSight solution. We no longer have access to UCS Manager in our new UCS environment. So, we will need Turbonomic to start supporting CISCO InterSight as a target in or...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Use the same "Warning" logic , when we delete a Jobstream Object , IWS will alert the user if the jobstream is used in other Jobstreams as a dependency ogic

If you DELETE a "JOB" object from the IWS database and it is included in other Jobstreams , IWS will alert/Stop the delete command because its cross referenced in other Jobstreams. If we DELETE a "CPU" object , again IWS will alert/Stop the User f...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Andoid SDK - Ability to reset Instana.sessionId programatically

Current implementation of Mobile Application Monitoring creates a session upon each fresh start of the mobile app. It would help greatly if we could programatically reset this sessionId.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Concurrent Sessions Enabled

Background: Concurrent session enabled refers to a feature or setting within an application or system that allows a user to be logged in and active from multiple devices or locations simultaneously. In other words, a user can have multiple concurr...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Adding metrics in Instana to monitor Transform Object for elastic search

Transform Object is one of the key components in elastic search. Currently Instana does not have any capability to monitor transform object.
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Support in-place resource resize without restart

Kubernetes at version 1.27 released a feature to change cpu and memory from containers without trigger a restart. Use this mechanism will boost Turbonomic usage on cloud native targets and minimize the requests for GitOps integrations.Source: http...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Import AD and UI certificates through UI

Today the customer's need to go through editing yaml files on the backend to be able to use secure ldap or importing a cert to to secure the Turbonomic UI or when using secure proxy when targeting cloud targets. All these scenarios need the custom...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration