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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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Quick add, drag&drop, prioritization, customization of columns and filtering for fourth level (sub-level) in lists

Currently quick add and drag&drop are only available for entities selected in view setup (lets call this first "three levels", when both axes are selected). So called "fourth level" (which user cannot select, as it is hardcoded in the system) ...
almost 11 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Planned for future release

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Rightsizing ROI Enhancements - Realized Savings, user experience, & reporting impacts

As a FinOps practitioner responsible for driving FinOps best practice adoption across our organization, and responsible to deliver potential & realized savings metrics to the executives, I require the ability to report on the savings offered &...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Requesting that an enhancement be created to allow SevOne NMS to interface for user token card authentication on IBM Tivoli WebSphere Application Server using Single-Sign-On

I work for the US Air Force and we need to be able to use our token cards to authenticate from IBM Tivoli JazzSM/DASH to SevOne NMS and SevOne Data Insights. Currently the NMS only supports Okta/Azure SSO/SAML providers. I am not seeing support fo...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Add datacenter, target, and storage cluster to Delete action export

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the vCenter datacenter, Turbonomic target name (vCenter name),and vCenter storage cluster name added to the the action center export for Delete actions, so that I can better understand where I am reclaiming sto...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Create Business Perspective per Process Application

When creating a new Perspective in the Business Monitoring capability of Instana I would like to be able to filter on Process Applications to be able to create a Perspective per Process Application. All business processes for that Process Applicat...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Improve the Dynatrace integration so that it is useful: Proper proxy support and entity selection

The legacy Dynatrace Observer, which only pulled Topology, allowed for specific Dynatrace entities to be selected via the Dynatrace entitySelector syntax used to query the Dynatrace APIs, which allowed for granular determination as to which topolo...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists