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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 a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Allow resizing of a VM when the VM is not running

Scale actions to resize or change the instance type of a VM in Azure do not function on a VM that is stopped/deallocated. Many of our VMs are scheduled to be stopped outside of normal business hours. We also have a schedule policy to have "execute...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
8 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Future consideration

IMPROVE AND ALLOW MAP GEO CAPABILITY

1. I would like to duplicate an existing map from the explore->maps screen 2. Map permissions/sharing should mimic reports/shortcuts/etc. public/private/team/tenant/specific users 3. Topology widgets have no way to not be in 'GEO' mode which ne...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Add support for C2S (Amazon’s classified Commercial Cloud Services cloud)

All federal intelligence agencies use C2S. In order to provide APM with Turbonomic to these customers, we must support C2S with Turbonomic.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1

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

Custom Business Metrics on True Cost Explorer

I have had a few prospects and customers ask if they could use custom business metrics in True Cost Explorer since the BMs are their main way of reporting out spend.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

DASH - (MRF) Monitoring Response Forensic // Security Logging Message Requirements and Locations

In need of the DASH to support the MRF logging requirement by the Bank of America. We are currently out of compliance due to application not providing supported logging. You can refer to PMR TS017617555 for more information related to this request...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Cognos - (MRF) Monitoring Response Forensic // Security Logging Message Requirements and Locations

In need of the Cognos to support the MRF logging requirement by the Bank of America. We are currently out of compliance due to application not providing supported logging. You can refer to PMR TS017617644 for more information related to this reque...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review