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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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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

Add priorityclassname to autotracewebhook helm chart

We have a highly dynamic environment and would like to ensure that cluster wide operators are available before customer workloads. The current helm chart for the autotracewebhook lacks the ability to set a priorityclassname in the deployment (http...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Send alert config id in alert notification

We are currently struggeling to correlate, which alert config has caused a notification being sent to our notification channel. It would be helpful to also receive a deep link to the alert config.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

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

new feature requests that are specific to BFD in NMS

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a fast fault detection mechanism based on RFC 5880. After a BFD session is established between two systems. We want to monitor the status of the bfd protocol configured on cisco devices through sevone. C...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future 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

Ideas for more consumable actions

After initial deployment, it may take many Turbonomic actions to bring the existing environment to a more desired state. As a new user to Turbonomic it can be hard to digest and consume those actions and understand where to start. Some ideas to he...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future 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

Within Turbo I should be able to select a group of items based on a larger group.

In my example I have created a group of accounts within our cloud environment, i should then be able to either apply a policy to the VM's that are in that group, or created a group of VM's that are in those accounts rather than having to duplicate...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration