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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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Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Ability to create an incident for the correlated group of events in alerts page.

When AIOps is already doing correlation and crating a reduced noise by grouping the alerts, why not able to create an incident for the same group and show the highest raking event in main incident summary.
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Submitted