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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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Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
9 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
9 days ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
9 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

View the usage of K8s PV(PersistentVolume) and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the PV usage exceeds 80%)

I want to monitor the usage of PV in Kubernetes and trigger an event when the usage exceeds a certain amount compared to the total usage. I would like to request the addition of this function.
15 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
15 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Needs more information

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
16 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
16 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
29 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future 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.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review