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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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Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Exclusion List for Reports/Views

Please add the ability to control Report/View access by excluding specific teams/portfolios instead of including specific teams/portfolios.   Example: Make a view public but hidden from one particular entity either team and/or portfolio. &...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 0 Needs more information

Create a Turbo API to extract SaaS server audit logs

We have PCI requirement to collect Turbo audit logs by 3Q25.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Planned for future release

Ability to set a Maximum Utilization and Request Constraint for nodes in OCP/K8s clusters

As a customer, I need to be able to set a maximum utilization and requests I don't want to pass for nodes, regarding the sum of all requests of all pods running there. Use case is: for production environment, I want to be sure to have enough capac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

Download of data for widget using Compare should offer file as csv (not zip)

As a user who makes use of the Export of data for Widgets, I want the downloaded file to be in an unzipped csv format when I am using it on a widget which has the 'compare time period' selected, So that I do not need to use the workaround of doing...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

User Management - Find Users can search using email address

As an admin who manage user onboarding to Cloudability via the UI, I want to be able to Find Users by their email address (under Settings/Users) So that I am able to easily find specific users quickly (especially when we have multiple users with t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted