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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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Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Add Support for Play Framework 3.0

We have upgraded to Play Framework 3.0 in our application and now the Instana monitoring no longer shows application metrics. We are aware that the supported Frameworks list only shows support up to Play 2.8: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-ob...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work as it refers to the same URL. This is the case in all Turbo installations self-hosted and SaaS. Find attached a video outlining ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add "path" value in helm chart with the Rabbitmq plugin defined

Hi, Please add the possibilty to add the "path" value in static-agent helm chart with using the rabbitmq plugin. All our rabbitmq containers are deployed with the "path : /rabbit". This path is not recognized by Instana because it's limited to use...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Real-time audit record in CDP files EQQCDPx

During IWS BatchOps daily work, they need to perform a lot MCP activities. Especially when there is a test prior to new application release and onborad new applications/LPARs such as Hold/Release/NOP/UNNOP/other thousands of jobs in TWS applicatio...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to events/alerts/etc

Would like the ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to event/alerts. This would allow us to add more Application Perspective's to one alert instead of creating multiple of the same alert to cover the Application Perspective's that...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

VDI - GPU support/improvement

Improve on-prem placement and sizing analysis with additional GPU constraints: - Adding GPU related metrics - Placement actions to take GPU utilization & constraints into consideration - Scaling actions to update GPU profile (GPU size)

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

What-if planing option to evaluate impact if a percentage of VMs upsize

Would like to be able to run a plan that evaluates cluster capacity if VMs in an automation hotadd policy were to upsize. Within the plan be able to on a slide basis evalutate if 10,20 etc. % were to consume the limit of the hot add policy. This w...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Read Only Rights on maintenance windows

Hello As mentioned in ticket TS013910126, I want to give READ ONLY rights on maintenance windows, to some users. Currently we can only grant read/write permissions.Best regards
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration