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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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Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request: Enhanced Debug Logging for Netcool JDBC Gateway

I am raising this request an enhancement to the Netcool JDBC Gateway. Currently, there is no mechanism to identify problematic ObjectServer column information in JDBC Gateway debug logs. When issues arise with ObjectServer columns, such as varchar...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Increase number of Stati in table view

In the table widget of DASH we can specify 4 differene conditions which leads to five different stati. As we have the requirement to show more icons we would like to increase the limit. It should be an easy change to allow more than 5 stati.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Addition of new Specific database monitoring metrics that are not part of current Instana buit in metrics

Customer have below requirements : for MSSQLSERVER monitoring. 1. Who created any login in SQL server --(Host/username should be displayed ) 2. Who deleted any login in SQL server -- (Host/username should be displayed ) 3. Password changes -- (Hos...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Not under consideration

Related Events: Do not suggest new groups covered by a deployed pattern

When new groups are discovered that match an existing pattern, they are not assigned to the existing pattern. This forces the users to move the pattern to new and then to deploy it again, so that new groups are assigned to the exsting pattern. The...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

easier Turbo Instance SSL certificate import - no manual edit of the YAML file

right now customers have to edit the yaml file with VI and a big cert file - loads of mistakes are made - and it's complex. and they need the right number of spaces - like 12 14 16. Vmware Vsphere client has an easy .cer file import process - this...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration