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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 blacklisting functionality of certain events in the alert configuration.

We really like the possibility to be able to alert on event types. However sometimes, a particular event is not relevant for a specific team and we want to disable it. It would be much more easy in this case to disable certain events in the contex...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

PUT-API for Tags

Right now you can create Tags with the Post API. But it fails if there is already an existing Tag. But there is no PUT API to change a tag and update tags. The only way is to delete all tags and create them again. It would be very useful if there ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Request to extend the Fixpack download functionality via GetMQFix.jar for ITX and ITCAM Products

TS017232118 We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/s...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

kubeturbo CLI support

To make Turbonomic utilization in a high rates, specially by developers and operators, we should have a kubeturbo CLI, so at the k8s terminal we can get pending actions that affect performance or indicate savings, like: kubeturbo get action -perfo...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration

The Cost Savings Per Month field which is available in downloads - add it to the API

Large customers use the API to blend this data with Portfolio Management Data - the cost savings is a KEY prioritization parameter to get actions taken.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
9 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Modify Turbonomic recommendations / actions before I approve them

When I negotiate a lesser reduction with an App owner, I would like to modify Turbo’s recommendation and still have Turbo perform the action. Having Turbonomic perform the action is advantageous because Turbo can then report that the action was ta...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration