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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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Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Ability to check Audit logs in the UI

Hi Team, I thought that having an option of showing the audit logs in our Turbo UI would be great. For example, in our Legacy PMC UI, if you are an Admin user, you can go and check all the users' actions. This can come in handy for huge Organizati...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
5 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Make it a rightsizing preference option to allow changes to/from confidential SKUs

Currently the rightsizing engine does not provide the capability to control recommendations between confidential and non-confidential SKUs in Azure. I can't imagine many customers want to flip flop between the two types of SKU as Microsoft prices ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
5 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Provide the Password and/or the Client Credentials Grant Types for the ServiceNow Connectors

The current OAuth 2.0 implementation for the ServiceNow Connectors in Datalink use the authorization grant type which requires an interactive login when the refresh token expires. This means that a user has to physically login when the refresh tok...
9 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Visualization of the top 5% (the part excluded in the case of 95pt)

I would like you to visualize the parts that are excluded in the case of 95pt (top 5%). This is to see the load conditions that are excluded from the optimization action considerations.I would like to use it as a reference for changes between 95pt...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review