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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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On-Prem Deployment using AWS IAM User assume role for all accounts

Instead of creating, managing, and configuring hundreds of IAM users for large AWS organization footprints, allow the use of a single iam user access key and secret and then a role to assume in order to collect the other account details. Either pa...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Need “Overwrite” capability in the Custom Calendar feature in Time Settings

Time Settings -> Custom Calendar feature only has “Append” option available to update dates.If we have to change the custom calendar dates(that we have already included in the file and checked in), we always have to rollback several days/months...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Allow the option to set our own custom domain within Apptio

It doesn't look like there's an option in Apptio for true SSO currently unless we use the Azure My Apps URL. As this is quite long, we will implement a workaround where we setup a domain of customerurl and redirect that to the SSO URL. However, on...
2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

NMS plugin for Nutanix

Many prospect customer have intention to move out of VMware and 1 of the favorite choice is Nutanix. Demand for Nutanix Plugin to monitor the infrastructure and platform is increasing by day.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

ALSAC would like to be able to monitor the SalesForce Cloud

We need to proactively monitor the SaleForce Cloud which is used extensively in ALSAC. We would like to be able to observe data such as (but not limited to): Logins and ip addresses related to them Data loads and deletions - unusual activity API A...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Plan migration of cloud workloads back to on-premise datacenter.

Turbonomic allows us to plan a move of on-prem workloads to cloud (Azure), but we want the ability to plan moves of cloud workloads back on-prem. We are maintaining on-prem resources to allow for bringing our servers home, but need to make sure th...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

DB and K8 Certificate Monitoring for OVA Deployments - on-Premise

Insight into when DB is filling and when K8 Certificates Expire. Today there are no warnings when this happens
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration