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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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UI Enhancements

Is there any plan to have better support for text wrapping? Is there any plan for better sizing of card elements in a dashboard view? Text placed on a card should auto size based on the number of characters etc.
5 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Needs more information

Be able to sort lists/views etc on the left hand pane

It would be useful to be able to sort items on the left hand pane by alpha order or create date, creator, etc.. This should be able to be done on the main level or within a folder. This would make it easier to find items in the left hand pane sprawl.
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 1 Not under consideration

Have PNG export reflect what is shown on the screen

Export: Is there any plan to have “export to PNG” actually reflect what is showing on the screen for a report – for example if you exclude something on the screen also have it excluded from the exported picture. Is there any plan to be able to exp...
5 days ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
5 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Create application map (Business App) based on Accounts

Customer is splitting their apps in different MS Azure Subscriptions. These MS Azure Subscriptions are visible in Turbonpomic as Accounts.To create an application map based on the resources in an account, currently each entity type (vm, disk, db, ...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Add SysLocation, SysContact and other string OIDs as Message Variables for alerts

As the title says, adding these standard OIDs as trigger messages would be very useful for alerting and management on the NMS for engineers and owners of the affected device to contact the team or person responsible of it.
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
27 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1