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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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Fix Actions Taken list on the Top Accounts page.

When Navigating from the home page, to Cloud, Top Accounts, Show All, there is a column for number of actions available. (in the old UI) In the new UI this useful column was eliminated. Whether viewing in the UI or downloading that list, the Actio...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Functionality already exists

instana saas hosted agent to support aws emr serverless plarform

need to add aws emr serveress platform. it is not supprted based on following link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-installing-configuring-serverless
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Single Unified Dashboard and Management for Multiple customers

for MSP like us, it is important to have a single dashboard and management pane of Instana for ease of administration, unlike today where each customer has a different URL and support engineers end up logging into different URL for supporting client.
2 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Add datacenter, target, and storage cluster to Delete action export

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the vCenter datacenter, Turbonomic target name (vCenter name),and vCenter storage cluster name added to the the action center export for Delete actions, so that I can better understand where I am reclaiming sto...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

ITP Expenses Assets tab: Date Picker for Purchase/In-Service Date

Idea: Adding the possibility to select Purchase Date & In-Service Date via a Date Picker rather than manually typing the date in ITP Expenses -> Assets tab. Why: current process of filling Date manually can cause confusion, as different us...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

The customer would like the ability to create an "Actions" widget in their dashboard to showcase the action executed for a particular business unit. We created groups for these business units in Turbo based on customer tags but that scope is not supported in the "Actions" widget

Being able to showcase actions executed on the basis of a business group would allow for more friendly competition within departments to get a "better turbo score" and track their individual teams progress.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Improve the Dynatrace integration so that it is useful: Proper proxy support and entity selection

The legacy Dynatrace Observer, which only pulled Topology, allowed for specific Dynatrace entities to be selected via the Dynatrace entitySelector syntax used to query the Dynatrace APIs, which allowed for granular determination as to which topolo...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration