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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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Dependencies/Flow tab Optimization to view data for a week

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down . Ability to show...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Cross-domain RCA is needed

One of three biggest telecom operator in Russia is in need of cross-domain RCA for their IBM Network Management IP system. Due to known limitation for number of elements in the ITNM domain, telecom operators have no other option, but to split netw...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

In the Merge Cluster Plan the wizard does not take the user to the storage actions, desired state, or desired state diameter settings.

When running the the Merge Cluster Plan the wizard doesn't take the user through the options to configure the storage actions, desired sate, and the desired state diameter settings. In other plan configurations these configurations are present in ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

In the Merge Cluster Plan the cluster name should be displayed in the actions, output, and exports.

When using the Merge Cluster Plan only the host name is present in the actions, output, and exports. It would be nice if the cluster name were present in the actions, output, and exports for easy readability and understanding of the data.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enable INSTANA auto-tracing for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Hi Team, I am creating this ticket as a follow-up of https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us/requests/23465. We at Arlo are using Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), a fully managed, highly available caching service built for Amazon DynamoDB. With cur...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Report with the utilization graphs for a group of VMs

I’d like the ability to have Turbo generate a report with the usage graphs for a group of VMs. I must get App Owner signoff for server RightSizing, and this data is demanded frequently to justify Turbo’s recommendations. I’d like to be able to spe...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 7 Future consideration

Create an Instana agent sensor for CP4D

While Instana can generically monitor the infrastructure, OCP cluster and services that make up CP4D, it does not collect and visualize any specific internal CP4D metrics. Instana agents use sensors to monitor various technology components which c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Script output monitoring using Instana (similar to IBM APM)

IBM APM customers can currently run scripts and monitor the output using regexpressions and create alerts on certain conditions. Similar capability is required in Instana to run scripts periodically and process the output. Example: Run a simple sc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration