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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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Audit logging capabilities for TEP Admin activities

The current Audit trail we see is EIB Change log which gives information on insert/delete/update /add but doesnt give a detailed picture about what exactly was changed and by whom on edits/deletes of situation ,workspace, policy, MSL, user adminis...
about 2 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Not under consideration

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues Based on the case TS019228912, IBM stated that the custom payloads can be only attached for "Issues and Incidents" type of events but not possible for "Monitoring Issues". Therefore, IsBank would be a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Ability to pass a dynamic instana custom dashboard link in the alert

Customer want to pass a dynamic instana customer dashboard link in the custom payload of the alert that has dynamic filters based on the entity in alert.for example customer has a custom dashboard that show queue usage statistics over time. when a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Accommodate multi-tier MSP model - Distributor-Partner-End Customer

Ingram Micro is looking for the capability to manage public cloud costs at their Org level (root), partner level (intermediate), and end customer level. Right now they're offering Cloudchekr free of charge to their partners for AWS, but charging t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Additional recommendations for GCP and AWS

GCP: Buckets / CloudSQL / BigQuery AWS: Unassociated Elastic IP / LB / PaaS services / Lambda Some recommendations do not take into account all the characteristics of the instance: e.g. T4g (ARM) on AWS without taking into account the specific OS.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Capture utilization history for frequently redeployed workloads

As a user of Turbonomic I would like my workloads that I redeploy every 30 days, to have their utilization captured historically so that i can use more than 30 days of utilization data in scaling analysis.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Custom metadata for definition objects

We would like the ability to add custom key/value metadata to all object types in the database. We utilize a lot of custom scripts to monitor and maintain our IWS system. This is useful in scripting scenarios where you need to make different decis...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Add support for IBM Cloud

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support IBM Cloud. The customer hope Turbonomic will support IBM Cloud. They ask us fo...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Not under consideration